Sound is a conundrum

by East Poetry   May 18, 2011


Sound is a conundrum
more perplexing then even light.
On its topic I am pondering
and building more insight.

"Here" ... is to exist!
As "Hear" ...is to be heard.
Where "Ear" is to understand,
the vibrations from that word.

"Voice" a God like gift in all of us,
Our thoughts, directed into sound,
Ironic, sound, is "massless"
just moves particles around!

How could anything affect a particle,
unless "it in itself" is one as well?
I'm sorry Super Scientist
but something doesn't gel.

Sound must be a particle
unique in many ways
perhaps it is so tiny
yet, its accumulation weighs!

Combined, it weighs infinity,
yet it shrinks and disappears?
Only lingering around enough
to move the particles we hear.

Where every bit of sound created
from speech and acts vibrate.
Then slip toward the center of all
and contribute to its weight.

All sound that was in past times,
And all the sound the future makes.
Contributes to the infinite size
the big bangs explosion makes!

Time is of no essence,
So it all gets counted in.
This infinite equation
God put us all within.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Larry Chamberlin

    Well thought out. Of course, the fundamental issue you raise, whether sound is particle, is not needed. Sound, a form of energy, is converted to mass by dividing it into the speed of light squared (i.e. the inverse of E=mc2*). The infinitesimal amount of mass created by even the greatest sound imaginable results in, not mass, but entropy. This entropy is by far the most dispiriting of concepts.

  • 12 years ago

    by Paul Gondwe

    Well written. I think you should write a book on sound alone, you would really be amazing and the book would be really good.

  • 12 years ago

    by L

    It's a big conundrum, I liked reading the poem.