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Richard Blaisdell's avatar

A grave situation.

Not grounded , but aloft;

Fly off into space, gravity displaced.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah, your word play is stellar, as always🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

The heaviest heaviness

pulling me down, dragging me down -

down low to the lowest low

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Honeygloom's avatar

Sorry you’re so HEavy, maybe I can HElp🖤

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Doctor says I could lose a few pounds but apart from that it's just gravity doing its thing

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Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

It is not our age

That shrinks our frames, hooks us down,

But a force made law

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love this! The unbearable heaviness of being🖤

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MS Rivera's avatar

Soaring down, free fall

You pull me close, like a hug

Too much force! I’m crushed

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oo I love the shift from free and friendly sounding to murderous. It’s very chilling🖤

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erniet's avatar

A field or a force?

Mathematically one,

It's a matter thing...

😁

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ok… you might need to explain this one to me🤦‍♀️ Math is my arch nemesis.

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erniet's avatar

Gravity can be treated as a force (mass attracts mass), or as a curved field (mass curves space-time in its vicinity). Mathematically equivalent, but fundamentally different in operation.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ah, ok, like us being stuck to the planet vs. an object in orbit?

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erniet's avatar

Look at it this way...you move in a straight line from point a to point b. It takes you some time, t.

Now there's a large mass between point a and point b. The mass curves space, so you think you traveled a straight line and it took some time, t. But to someone watching you from outside your ship and the mass, you would have travelled in an arc bent towards the mass and the distance travelled would have appeared greater, and the time it took you would have seemed longer to that observer. The mass "warped" space and time.

Weird, right?

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Honeygloom's avatar

Physics is so loony. BUT it does make sense that you wouldn’t necessarily perceive your own trajectory as warped, even if you knew it was. I think…

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erniet's avatar

Well, the point of a warped field approach is you don't perceive it unless it's very, very large.

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erniet's avatar

Not quite...you can view gravity as a force that pulls things, or as a warp in space so the what we think are moving in straight lines but are actually being bent towards objects with mass...

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Jimmy Gardner's avatar

Upwards out the shaft

The hatch blown open to space

Tetherless, I drift

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Honeygloom's avatar

Oh man, this is such a terrifying thought 🖤

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Dylan Delgado's avatar

Longing to break free

I spring with all my energy

but alas; I'm stuck.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Love this! If only our will power could overcome physics🖤

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

If gravity fails,

We'll all get the chance to know,

What flying feels like... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Would be so cool 😎

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Of course, there'd be no way to get back down again. But the flying part would definitely be fun for a while! Haha... 😎

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Honeygloom's avatar

Until hunger set in…

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Chris J. Franklin's avatar

That's true. Even if you took a sandwich up there, most of it would probably just float away. Nooooo... 😎

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erniet's avatar

I have often pondered the significance of the 5 7 5 on the Horror Haiku homepage, and it just hit me that that's the number of syllables in each line...🤦‍♂️

Boy, do I feel dumb...😂

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Honeygloom's avatar

You’re thinking I’m more clever than I am and hiding things. But no😂

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erniet's avatar

Accelerator.

It can dilate time itself

If it's large enough...

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Honeygloom's avatar

I kind of get this one😂 I know that difference in a gravitational *something* makes time so weird things😅

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erniet's avatar

Gravitational acceleration has been shown to be the equivalent of moving. So if the acceleration due to gravity is close enough to the speed of light you begin to see relativistic effects such as time dilation, mass expansion, and length contraction.

Think the film "Interstellar" on the planet close to the black hole.

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

the GRAVITY of being obsolete

________

Wisdom's weight crashes down

Experience floats away

Our gravity fails

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Decades of knowledge

Lighter than youth's fresh ideas

Nothing grounds us now

.

Boardroom table cold

As space between distant stars

We're drifting apart

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Mentees now leaders

Their eyes avoid our presence

Unbearable void

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Achievements gathering dust

Like comets' tails forgotten

In vast corporate space

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Time's spiral galaxy

Leaves us on the outer edge

Spinning out of sync

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Voices once valued

Now echo in empty halls

It's cold way up here

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History discarded

Like space junk orbiting Earth

No one looks back now

.

Gravity of age

Pulls us down while youth ascends

Unbalanced cosmos

.

Final contribution

A meteor's last bright flare

Before fading out​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Honeygloom's avatar

Wow, brutal and brilliant!

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Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

It's true—I'm 73, and in real life, I'm often dismissed. People have told me the world has changed since I was young. I was born just six years after World War II ended—imagine all the history I've witnessed. I've been writing poetry since third grade. But now, I'm told I'm no longer relevant.

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Honeygloom's avatar

People can be so closed minded. I’m sorry you have to go through that😔

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