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Redshift

from Planets and Animals by Bob Drake

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In the beginning
a seed one thousand billion times smaller
than a proton
began to expand
very smoothly
though faster than its escape velocity
even faster than the speed of light.

For one tenth of a second
the temperature was so high there were no atoms
just a plasma of electrons and nuclei
there was no difference between matter and radiation
for the next half a million years
until they decoupled

And the light streamed out and spread through the darkness
broke out from the cooling mass of plasma
stars began to form.

And just before expansion began
a quantum fluctuation
imprinted a pattern on the structure
of the resulting expanding space.

You and I, every atom of every star,
every thing, are all a part of that pattern.

And so as space continues expanding
faster and faster do not forget
you’re a part of it.

Yeah the Universe is flat and expanding
faster than its escape velocity
yeah it’s space itself what’s expanding faster all the time
you and I and every atom inside every star
are part of the pattern
printed by a quantum fluctuation
on that tiny seed
just before it started to spread out
14 billion years ago.

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from Planets and Animals, released December 6, 2020

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