NaPM April 23, 2017

[dukealien]

Albert Eulenspiegel



Till Eulenspiegel, public jester
medieval fool, was questioned by
wise and titled doctors
of his day.  They demanded
that he say where the center
of the universe was located.
Disdaining Rome, Jerusalem, and Eden
“Right where I’m sitting,”
Till replied.  “Prove that it’s not!”
Later, after more disruptive pranks
they hung him.

Shortly after, better-learned men -
Copernicus, Galileo -
made Sol the universe’s center.
In five centuries it moved
to galactic core, then
Big Bang’s detonation point
until one Albert Einstein showed
that no non-accelerating point
is privileged: there is no center,
no true universal frame of reference;
all’s relative, a universal flux.

Despite this discovery
being used to overturn all decency
as merely relative,
they didn’t hang him
this time.

God had his revenge, though:
He let Planck and Heissenberg
catch Him playing at dice
profoundly shocking Einstein
who thought he knew better
how God should behave.
Contrary to some sources
God is mocked this way
from time to time
but He always has the last laugh.