What does this poem teach? What parallels does it draw? What scientific laws does it address ?

Question

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Knowledge is as the universe expanding in every way.
How will it keep its intregrity? If this follows it can't stay!
Look, see here, the apple on the ground?
After its fallen from the tree, it doesn't hang around!

Focus is as gravity that keeps things quite on track.
Here is one of learning's tools with integrity quite intact!
Look, see here, the witness of the moon?
I must ask you here this day, will it be falling soon?

We are as the wondering child playing with many toys,
While finding how things work today,
we're making a lot of noise.
Look, see here, we grow this way, to gather what remains.
We then move on to another stage to focus in our reigns.

TD Euwaite in 8mm: Yes, the prize is enlightenment. Yes gravity is mentioned. Gravity like focus allow stability so that one can see a thing clearly. There are many things we know but unless we focus on knowledge in particular, it becomes lost in a sea of information. The faithful witness of the moon pulls in the tides on scheduel, it also reflects Earth's measure.

Gravity is one Law of Science described here, can you show another?
It is described, not named.

Answer 1

The parallel is not just gravity, it is the expansion of the universe, how it "appears" to be expanding equally in all directions...but that would mean we're in the center of the universe...which we're not, so it means that it is an "inflation" of three dimensional space in four dimensions (IAW the 2nd law of thermodynamics; "The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium")...don't try to wrap your head around it, it's called "cosmology" and even astrophysists can't agree on it entirely. In any event, the parallel is that just as science is unsure if the expansion can go on forever, so too are we unsure if the expansion of human knowledge can go on forever...and if so, will "it" lose its integrity? It then goes on to say, "if this follows it can't stay", meaning that if knowledge keeps growing it will reach a point of disintegration, just as the apple who learns of gravity will eventually decay...or transcend. The poet then says that "focus" as does gravity, keeps things "on track", and that if there is focus, or if we learn to focus, it "will" keep our integrity intact. We're asked to look to the moon and explain why it doesn't fall like the apple. Although there is an answer, the question implies a meaning or question behind every answer, so that the pursuit of knowledge may have no end, and the fact that we at times think we know so much amounts to little more than children playing with toys, and as we praise ourselves for solving so many riddles, we're actually doing nothing more than making a lot of noise. Finally, in the last two lines, it says that as we grow in one direction, gathering what we've found, we move on to another level where our focus changes..."our reigns" meaning that we believe ourselves to be "kings of all we survey", in a manner of speaking.

...at least this is what this poet/amateur astrophysist sees in this poem :)

Answer 2

Do I win a prize for working so hard?

It teaches patient scholarship. It parallels Isaac Newton and my 4th grade teacher. Gravity is named...am I missing something? Am I ignorant of the law?

Answer 3

It's kind of hard to tell -