{"id":647,"date":"2012-10-15T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2012-10-04T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T18:41:47","slug":"emotional-life-in-the-universe-by-jim-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Life in the Universe by Jim Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>Instead of noisy static, we hear clear beats<\/span><\/p>\n

grouped in patterns of seven and eleven.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our entire team is galvanized; not even<\/span><\/p>\n

the frequent napper holds back to see who gets<\/span><\/p>\n

to break this code. At last this is the breech<\/span><\/p>\n

in the chaos where we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve plunged our heads <\/span><\/p>\n

for years. If this is more than just a glitch<\/span><\/p>\n

in our equipment, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do as it bids. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

We work around the clock like beings driven<\/span><\/p>\n

by unseen forces. Take-out pizza boxes<\/span><\/p>\n

fill up the lab. All effort goes toward solving<\/span><\/p>\n

the encrypted message. The smell of pizza mixes<\/span><\/p>\n

with smells of a gym locker room: not even<\/span><\/p>\n

the need to run a clean, tight ship relaxes<\/span><\/p>\n

the grip of this obsession. Where it leads<\/span><\/p>\n

is up for grabs. In face of all the scads<\/span><\/p>\n


\nof data, interpretation lags behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prime numbers turn to other universals \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n

Planck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s constant, pi, the speed of light. The mind<\/span><\/p>\n

of each researcher is party to rehearsals<\/span><\/p>\n

that leap from a quantitative kind<\/span><\/p>\n

of knowing through sensual feeling parcels<\/span><\/p>\n

to mountains forests horses starlight art<\/span><\/p>\n

and magical perceptions of the heart.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of noisy static, we hear clear beats grouped in patterns of seven and eleven. Our entire team is galvanized; not even the frequent napper holds back to see who gets to break this code. At last this is the breech in the chaos where we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve plunged our heads for years. If this is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":649,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}