Wednesday, September 10, 2008

When Philosophers Collide

I was reading excerpts from the Pre-Socratics, and musing about the cool new collider in Europe.

If we find that the teeniest things
are really strings,
are those the atoms of which Democritus spoke?

Or does the mathematics, wildly baroque,
vibrating strings and all, suggest
that Pythagoras had the best guess?

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