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The first truth to understand is the vast tract of time

Shaping the way of all things, silent and vigilant

Inevitable consequence of those laws,

physics is relentless

From supernova; elements born:

a star, to metal, to man; all one

Proto-planets condense

around an infant Sun

Fusion ignites its core,

as a beating heart to burn

This world was once a fluid haze of light,

Till toward the centre set the starry tides,

….From Dust and Gravity

(An ode) To the weak force:

present the strongest case

Without which this rock

would be directionless in space

Molten sea before liquid water reigned

Devoid of organic life; but living all the same

Barren cradle, waiting in the underworld

Hardening resolve, but never set in stone

With her orbit in place, determined road

Lucky third world in the Goldilocks zone

"This world was once a fluid haze of light,

Till toward the centre set the starry tides,

And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast

The planets." -- Tennyson, "The Princess”

....From Dust and Gravity

No occasion for a deus ex machina

Simple words; the language of nature