Encouroged to do a dialogue in poetic setting with a man of fame by Claudia at dVerse, of course my choice have fallen on Albert Einstein.
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“How wonderful to meet a man of fame,
but sir you must surely be dead”
“Oh but in some reconning of time
it might be true,
but surely you must have heard
that on another scale
I must yet be alive.”
“and despite your brilliance sir,
and you won your Nobel prize
on concept of quantum mechanics
that you never thought was true”
“an irony it is that a theory
of such ugliness was true
and that I spent my mind in
futile acts on proving
that my youthful self was wrong,
In fact I know that God indeed
probably played a dice”
“the pioneering work you did
back in nineteen hundred O five,
took another fifty years to grasp”
“for some it did, but other
grasped it all at once.
It’s fairly simple really
time is just a parameter
lacking relevance of real
but now I leave this point
in space-time continuity”
POFF
“Oh please I would have liked
to ask you yet again
what’s your view on—”
POFF
—-
March 23, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
oh einstein is an excellent choice…read quite a bit about him..his personal life chaotic at times… he was a genius and i had many questions that i would ask him if i had the chance to… ya know what my fav quote by him is…? “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”… he had a good sense of humor..ha…i like that.. smiles
I really had so many more questions to put but the time was too short
excellent — on this line “and your won your Nobel prize” might be you instead of your ?
This was thought provoking, and fun
A thank you Bill, yes a little lapsus there…. 🙂
haha…i like the double disappearance there in the end…of him and then you…some of these minds…i dont know i would probably get lost in the conversation but thoroughly engaged so that i might have a chance a bit later to understand it all…ha….really cool take on this….
Thank you Brian… a mediocre phycisist is still very interested in a guy like Albert.
Enjoyed this a lot. Your poem definitely has ‘relativity.’ Smiles. I think Einstein might intimdate me if I were to meet him. You mentioned time being too short. Perhaps at some point you can expand your poem just for your own self.
I think I might… but I guess Mr Einsteing is a busy man
Ha, the double poff. Excellente meeting between you too and the ending was classic.
Somehow I think he would disapear with a poff
Smile. I have not a clue of what Einstein stood for. I understand what relativity means, in a overall perspective, but I was not meant for mathematics. I have a uncle who tries to teach me but he is skiing even if he is an old professor so I believe he is crazy. I see mathematics as relative to love. But I don’t count my chickens. I do not. Perhaps I am not regular.
I find it so interesting that Einstein tried to disprove his finding as a youth of quantum mechanic to be wrong… He actually didn’t get his nobel prize for theory of relativity…. but for quantum mechanics
Gosh. But he did not succeed, did he? Here is your calling …
Nope total futility…
The rain is fresh. But relative to being fresh the rain is dead …
Of all these poem, I can believe that Einstein really is still out there somewhere, just poffing about, in and out of time and space and conversations… great ending!
Thank you 🙂 yes I expect him to do just that.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results… that’s my favorite quote from Einstein. Love this… I’m sure the conversation would be formal just as you’ve portrayed.
Thank you, yes you could fill a whole poem with citations from AE, I only used the one where he said god didn’t play dice, I like that as a phycisist, and despite that he was wrong…
I love the ending POFF, and I like that you focus on Einstein’s attempts at falsification (I’m a big fan of Karl Popper). I just wish that the pressure on modern science (funding, publications etc.) didn’t lead to emphasis being placed on success of a theory (it tends to bias one).
But if the facts don’t fit the theory then you should change the facts 🙂
Great poem…I would be intimidated to speak with him…but yes a wonderful ending!
Thank you… it was a brief encounter… and very intimidating.
This was fun. I am enjoying doing the rounds. So many wonderful conversations.
It was a wonderful prompt…
For me:
“In fact I know that God indeed
probably played a dice” pretty much nails it – very acute…
Thank you… yes I focused on one citation where he might have been wrong.
Oh, yes! That would be a good one to chat with! Nicely done!
Thank you 🙂
What an excellent choice and what an awesome conversation. To swap words with the master of relativity, how interesting would that be? One of his famous quotes “God does not play dice” Many believed he was a religious man because of it. Atheist think he is an atheist… but I think he is agnostic.. right?
I know, and Niels Bohr answered him. “Einstein, stop telling God what to do”… I agree he was probably agnostic, but he didn’t like ugly theories I think.
Love your choice… love the conversation. Made me wish to be a fly on the wall…
I would have liked to sit in on a conversation with him coversing with Niels Bohr.
Bjorn–so clever how you took that whole quantum thing and had him present in another dimension. Yes, he would be so fascinating to sit down with.
Really very fascinating… wonder if he would have had any patience with a person like me.
Great write and Laurie is most likely right, you hit the nail on the head..this is how I imagine it a conversation with him would be…with a little playfulness on his part…his quotes escape me now but I have several favorites 😉
Thank you .. I find hime fascinating… first I thought that I would introduce his first wife to you…
Bjorn, this is perfect! I loved the fun in this.
Thank you.. I enjoyed writing it.
…i love Physics a lot better than chemistry for chemistry made me cry… but nah, i wouldn’t dare ask / discuss anything about physics to him… i might surely just look fool before him… but i would like to have a cup of latte or espreso with him though… an excellent read… smiles…
I think I would dare… but it would be intimidating for me…
nice twist & surprise on the double-vanishing ending 😉
“on another scale
I must yet be alive” –
very nice line, among many, thanks Bjorn 😉
Thank you 😉
Ha. Super charming. k.
Thank you 🙂
Like this alot! Nicely done take on the prompt.
When I met him ,he just played the violin and we said nothing:)
Good interchange, Bjorn. Have you seen “Copenhagen”, a play about Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg? If not, I think you would enjoy it.