Origins: The Cosmos in Verse
Author: Conlon, Joseph
ISBN: 9780861549115
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 04 Feb 2025
Pages: 144 Format: Paperback / softback
There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo,
A manic dance a rumpus to arouse
The universe- of Higgs and W,
Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus -
For centuries, poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and before turning to the arts Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile,
scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations.
Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic. Drawing on his own scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe, through two long-form poems 'The
Elements' and 'The Galaxies'. Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.
ISBN: 9780861549115
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 04 Feb 2025
Pages: 144 Format: Paperback / softback
There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo,
A manic dance a rumpus to arouse
The universe- of Higgs and W,
Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus -
For centuries, poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and before turning to the arts Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile,
scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James Clerk Maxwell moonlighted as poets, composing verse between experiments and equations.
Following in this tradition, theoretical physicist Joseph Conlon spins a dazzling intergalactic epic. Drawing on his own scientific expertise, Conlon reveals the origins of our universe, through two long-form poems 'The
Elements' and 'The Galaxies'. Journeying from the Big Bang to the edges of our ever-expanding cosmos, Origins offers a delightful and revelatory adventure through contemporary physics.
