A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, and Why

I tried to fathom nature's laws
From twirling models and schoolroom sketches
Of molecules and parts of atoms,
And nearly believed--but then came quarks,
Bosons, leptons, antiparticles,
Opposite turning mirror images,
Some that perforate the earth,
Never swerving from their certain paths,
I've listened to conflicting views,
About the...

A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, and Why

I tried to fathom nature's laws
From twirling models and schoolroom sketches
Of molecules and parts of atoms,
And nearly believed--but then came quarks,
Bosons, leptons, antiparticles,
Opposite turning mirror images,
Some that perforate the earth,
Never swerving from their certain paths,
I've listened to conflicting views,
About the grand and lessor worlds:
A big bang where it all began;
Of curved, ever--expanding space;
Perhaps tremendous twirling yo-yos
That will someday reach the end
Of cosmic gravity and then
Fly back to where they can restart
Or cataclsmically blow apart--
And then, and then the next event.
And is it all an accident?

I feel sure that it is not all an accident.
Jimmy Carter