Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2015.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772121186
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M3454
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2015eb
- Modifying agency
- DLC
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xii, 164 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00236229 (OCoLC)910986656 (CaOOCEL)451011
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Sonnet for Valentines 12
- The set of all gods 14
- The god of prime numbers 15
- The god of infinities 16
- The god of symmetry 17
- The god of gravity 18
- The god of salt 19
- The god of kites and darts 20
- The god of quantum uncertainty 21
- The god of probabilities 22
- The baker god 23
- The god of automata 24
- The god of teapots 25
- The god of cats 27
- The god of sparrows 29
- The god of hearts 30
- The jeweller god 31
- The god of dark 32
- The god of memory 33
- The muse of universes 34
- Ordinary matter 36
- Ordinary matter 37
- Vacuum fluctuations 39
- The helium thoughts 40
- Advice to the lovelorn 41
- Three-body problem 43
- Love in three dimensions 44
- Heavy elements 45
- Local bubble 46
- Catechism 47
- Standard candles 52
- 1 Address | 1959 53
- 2 Clouds of glory | 1908 55
- 3 Pythagorean theorem | 1965 58
- 4 Triangulation | 1808 59
- 5 The end of greatness | 2000 62
- 6 In the Castle of Stars | 1576 64
- 7 Supernova Type 1A | 1997 67
- 8 Then death returns 70
- 9 In all that void 72
- 10 Looking out to the dark | December 1928 73
- 11 d = (X- x)2 + (Y- y)2 + (Z - z)2 - c (T- t)2 | now 75
- A prayer to bring you home 77
- Muscle of difficulty 80
- Muscle of difficulty 81
- Yet another crack in the foundation 83
- Day’s eye 85
- Expanding space 87
- The movers’ dilemma 89
- Rectangularization of the morbidity curve 91
- Now, that amphibious moment 93
- To the generations that will live a thousand years 94
- Last scattering surface 95
- Let us compare cosmologies 98
- 1 Let us compare cosmologies 99
- 2 The Orphic follower 100
- 3 A pope 101
- 4 The evangelist 102
- 5 The philosophical skeptic 103
- 6 The nihilist 104
- 7 The totalitarian 105
- 8 The survivalist 106
- 9 The optimist 107
- 10 The magician 108
- 11 The baker 109
- 12 The consumer 110
- 13 The funeral director 111
- 14 The Manichean 112
- 15 The artist 113
- Sins and virtues 114
- Avarice 115
- Lust 117
- Gluttony 118
- Envy 120
- Pride 121
- Anger 123
- Sloth 124
- Mercy 126
- Hope 128
- Shifting wavelengths 130
- Tortoise and fern 131
- Fingers of God 133
- The barber’s paradox 134
- Zeno’s paradox 135
- Twin paradox 136
- Sand reckonings: Eubulides’ paradox 137
- Honeycomb conjectures 138
- Bee violet 140
- Optical molasses 141
- Life adapts to inhospitable environments 142
- How to tell a Martian my heart is on the left 143
- Underworlds 144
- Persephone and I are underground 145
- The outer dark 148
- Cocytus 151
- Niflheim 155
- The man with no hands 158
- Each of us the centre of a circle 160
- Postscript 162
- God submits a grant application to the Canada Council 163
- Notes 166
- Acknowledgements 176
- About the Author 178