Science  Write  Now

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Hypothesis:

If silence is the color black, and black is the color of absence, then silence is absence.

False premise: Black is a color.

 

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                        before the Big Bang there was a box

                        of white filled with all the colors

                        that would be

 

                        the explosion wasn’t of sound, but light

 

                        Someone opened the box

                        light flooded the void, traveled

                        at record-setting speed to starburst

                        after starburst, dispersed, gravitated

                        a cacophony of color floating in ebony

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Hypothesis:

If a sound wave travels through space, and there is no one to hear it, then space still has sound.

False premise: Sound travels in space.

 

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black is the absence of light                                      

 

light explodes

 

space is a vacuum

 

space, is where it’s at  

 

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If            , and                , then                         .

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two people embrace

 

           This is what silence feels like, one thinks.

           Yes, yes it is, thinks the other.         Shhhh...

 

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silence is a rainbow

 

space has no sound     

 

two people fall in love        

 

     with silence

 

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Silence is                          .                  

 

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silence has the right to remain

     colorless

     still

     quiet

 

     silent

 

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