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The Mystery of Empty Space

The vacuum of space is quite real: it's not nothing! And Science found proof that there's no ether either (still air that 'life' moves through at walk and won't notice.) For Physics, a problem was born that was trouble! All light gets diffracted (1), refracted (2) (things wave-like) though waves move in matter (like waves on an ocean or sound waves in air.) But a vacuum's an absence of substance, it seems, and light's movement continues, a paradox, hinting a link to what's massive. The truth evolved slowly, and boy, it proved something - that matter is wave-like (Whew! I need a breather!), light-waves have momentum! (Perverse! How's this justice?) But Trump's folk can't bend, see his truth's just a bubble! Can vacuous thoughts be substantive, so childlike, that nothing can touch? Think I feel a commotion, brain's waves are diffracting; void's mass-warp makes new sense! Some folk, sure Trump's great, are seduced by Grand menus! No meat! Breast milk wins! You feel hungry? Christ's passive! Brian Johnston 31st of October 2020 Poet's Notes: (1) Diffracted Light - The waves of a beam of light spreads out after passing through two narrow apertures, after which the spreading waves can create interference patterns. (2) Refracted Light - A ray of light changes direction as it passes from one media into another as from air (or water) into a glass plate or lens.

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