The Happy Tectonics

Robert Ronnow
The Happy Tectonics

The Happy Tectonics

Next to my son's anger
plate tectonics are nothing
to me. His unhappiness
was caused by me.
His purpose and mine
is to catch photons and
store them in our bones.
Time measures change
which continues without
self-doubt. There is no self.
Therefore, why care about
my son's anger
or my guilt?

Why do we have imaginary numbers anyway?
The imaginary i
allows us to find
solutions to equations
that don't have real
number solutions. It is actually common
for equations to be unsolvable
in one number system
but solvable in another:
—with only the counting numbers, we can’t solve x+8=1; we need the integers for this!
—with only the integers, we can’t solve 3x-1=0; we need the rational numbers for this!
—with only the rational numbers, we can’t solve x²=2; enter the irrational numbers!
—and with only the real numbers, we can’t solve x²= -1; we need the imaginary numbers
      for this!

Is it possible as Deutsch
suggests that the changes
a self-aware organism can
applying the scientific method
instantiate are innumerable
compared to those of the sun or any big bang?
Therefore, one must care
about the harm you've done
or the good you'd do.
Death initiates a complex process by which the human body gradually reverts to dust
but minerals may fill the cracks and voids, bonding the hydroxyapatite and allowing
      the bones to join . . .
in the happy tectonics
of the earth's plates.