Reconciliation Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

The trouble is:

Our understanding of space-time,
And gravity in particular,
Is built from Einstein’s equations of general relativity,
Whereas the extreme conditions of the very early universe
Can only be described by quantum mechanics -

No one knows how to reconcile the two

And has Rovelli has explained:

‘The sun bends space around itself
And the Earth does not turn around it because of a mysterious force
But because it is racing directly in a space which inclines,
Like a marble that rolls in a funnel.
There are no mysterious forces generated at the centre of the funnel;
It is the curved nature of the walls which causes the marble to roll.
...

In short, the general theory of relativity
Describes a colourful and amazing world where universes explode,
Space collapses into bottomless holes,
Time sags and slows near a planet,
And the unbounded extensions of interstellar space
Ripple and sway like the surface of the sea’.

Just so are the mysteries
Of our relationships
Where spun by an austere imperative like love
We find colourful and amazing worlds
Where rainbows shimmer
As suns shine
And when it is lost
Time slows and the unbounded
Miseries of loneliness
Diffuse endlessly left untouched.

As for quantum mechanics
It seems that all exists in a haze of probability
So that we have a certain chance of being
At Point A
Another chance of being at Point B...
Ad infinitum.
And what is true of mass
Is also true of a particle's other properties,
Like its momentum, energy and spin
Such that there will always be imprecision -
As this is a fundamental property.

So my stars
My loved ones
I might never have found you
In the crowd
And my universe might never have become.

So my insights
My understandings
Might have been forever mute,
Out of place, out of time
And my heart and thoughts
Unreconciled.