Joseph Conlon

There raged a thumping cosmic ballyhoo,A manic dance – a rumpus to arouseThe universe: of Higgs and W,Electrons, gluons, muons, Zs and taus…For centuries, poetry and science have been improbable, yet constant, bedfellows. Chaucer was an amateur astronomer; Milton broke bread with Galileo; and before turning to the arts Keats was a doctor. Meanwhile,scientific luminaries like Ada Lovelace and James...