relativity III

the laws of Newton just approximate
the special case where space-time's nearly flat
but Albert Einstein dared to formulate

the broader rules regardless where one's at

subjectively, a century's ticked past
since he first published relativity
coordinates can't but conform to mass
attested by the path of Mercury

no rail embankment's constant as a rock
by which to calibrate measuring sticks
and now Lorentz has smashed our very clock
the rest can change and only 'c' is fixed
yet fuzziness still dogs the smallest size
until we know if gravity's quantized

LIGO II

the warp and weft of space-time resonate
a billion light-years from the stellar blast
if one takes pains enough to calibrate
no ref'rence frame is ever hard and fast
mere rock can't change the path of gravitons
no lens can focus them as you would light
a straighter shot than the fastest of guns
the spatial term falls out of time-of-flight
a novel sense augments our natal five
more alien than sonar used by whales
just frequency and when do they arrive
must carry their entire encoded tales
no glare of noon can dazzle LIGO's eye
a new telescopy surveys the sky

LIGO

the web of space-time rings like a great gong
a billion light-years from the stellar blast
as Einstein had assured us all along
no ref'rence frame is ever hard and fast
mere rock can't change the path of gravitons
no lens can focus them as you would light
a straighter shot than the fastest of guns
the spatial term falls out of time-of-flight
a novel sense augments our natal five
more alien than sonar chirps of whales
just frequency and when do they arrive
must carry their entire encoded tales
no glare of noon can dazzle LIGO's eye
a new telescopy surveys the sky