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Juratron Park

from Wake Up Gasping by Angela Brett

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Some early papers about the Large Hadron Collider called it the Juratron, after the Jura mountains that it is partially underneath. The Jurassic period is named after the same mountains, due to the dinosaur fossils found there. This poem is a play on 'Jurassic Park', where instead of recreating dinosaurs from the early Earth, we recreate the high-energy conditions of the early universe in the LHC.

Where Grand Unification celebrates the essential sameness of forces at high energies (and thus people), Juratron Park goes on to celebrate difference.

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If you pine for the mystery
before Noah’s ark
we’ve remade prehistory
at Juratron Park.


Come atoms, come molecules,
See what you were back then.
Come out for a frolic, you’ll
spin unperturbed again.

Those that wander can find
on our Memory Lane walks
they’re no longer confined
to a group of three quarks.

Before we were three
we were free from our tether,
and though we were free
we were closer together.

We loved antimatter,
we were one, nigh elation
to meet and to natter
’bout CP violation.

So come to a place
that’s more bright than the sun
where we’d meet face to face
‘fore they lost and we won.


Then back where you’re from,
bound together by force,
Go back to your com-
pounds, to never divorce.

We don’t all get on,
talk is charged and polemical
but each baryon
has its place in a chemical.

If protons complain
then you reach in and tell ’em, in
truth you all gain
when you’re each in your element.

You’re not vexed when you seek
unified universe
But you know you’re unique
when divided, diverse.

Make the world have this aim:
make the world we’re in different.
The more we’re the same,
the more we’re indifferent.

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from Wake Up Gasping, released April 8, 2021

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