Introduction


A lens gets grit
on a system geometric
-al Two flats confronted conform
till they become spheric
-al Partners in concavity

Using glass to bend the light
Simple geometry gets it right
A lens by hand tools made
Galileo's stock and trade

Now consider
Any invention by
human minds
Search the literature
One always finds
prior publication
in Nature

Not only glass bends light
also gravity
Large galaxies
Choose one from billions
Flat discs
Spiral symmetry
Roll pitch yaw
You pick and specify

Faint samples cross parsec arcs tight
Come to this planet from the beginning of time
Bring us the first light
through a curved line

Nature invented too
S C I E N C E
The collection of knowledge
A product of evolutionary biolog
-y Or maybe could both be
one universal tendency
to maximize entropy?
Might what we see // possibly
come from some // simple geometry?
A simple symmetry
of unfamiliar dimensionality?

Light at a constant energy
Constructing a computing machine
A collective memory
Encoded in DNA
30,000 genes
30,000 sculptures in protein
Each end premature
a stroke of the chisel
The accumulation of knowledge
The price of one bit
This complex shape
grit to fit
an evolutionary niche

Grains of sand fill a vessel
Settling increases density
The more perfectly packed
into the surface below
The smoother the plane
made by gravity exposed
Complexity evolves simplicity
Listen for the geometry
in that higher dimensionality



Biological Computation


Space, Time, Matter, and Energy
Is there a fifth?  Asks Harlow Shapley
Another element involved
Quite unlike the four above?

Information it would seem
is only matter's sorting scheme
Knowledge though is something more
That information alone can't store
To transmit by copy is not proof
Unless the copying is the proved truth