They are in the stars.
"We are going to say that it is possible that the vital energy of the grandmother has not disappeared. That it has gone up or down, or that it has dispersed in a way that we don't yet understand. Maybe at this moment it is becoming another kind of energy."
That was Sergio's explanation to his ten-year-old son, in the presence of the child's grief at the death of his grandmother. He knew the infant's feelings. He had lost a source of unconditional love. He himself had gone through a similar moment.
The child took his father's hand, accepting the explanation.
The mother looked at him sympathetically. A faint smile tugged at the corners of her lips.
"What do you think, Mommy?
"I think your grandmother is becoming a star right now. Someday you'll know which of the lights in the firmament she is."
Sergio and Amalia, he, a physicist, she, a poet, were always trying to answer with sincerity the continuous questions of Samuel, who from a very young age had shown signs of unusual intelligence.
Sami went from being an inquisitive child to a student at the same prestigious university where his father taught quantum physics. His childlike curiosity about the world had developed into a quality that in science can be very rewarding.
At his university Sam attended a conference where his father shared the stage with a Nobel laureate in physics. The students listened in amazement to the discussion.
The guest physicist raised the possibility that a box containing a capsule of toxic gas could also contain a cat. There is a possibility that the capsule could explode. There is also a chance that it will not. The paradox that arises is uncertainty. After a while the cat may be alive or dead, since it is not possible for it to be alive and dead at the same time. Or... is it possible to think differently?
As he listened to the speakers, Sam remembered his grandmother. He imagined her as a force in continuous modification, striving to return to heaven. He attended his grandmother's funeral, but thought of her as fluctuating in a reality in which she was both dead and alive, moving between the boundaries of two realities. The two realities known to all: life and death.
A murmur of admiration from the audience brought him out of his thoughts. He caught up to hear the keynote speaker say:
"What we want to do is to study how quantum features are lost as time passes."
A soft but very long applause rewarded the scientist's presentation. Sam joined in the applause as he felt a sudden urge to return to where he had his computer. In his mind he replayed the speaker's final words. "What we want to do is study how quantum features are lost as time passes." To say next... "and what they become."
In the evening, when his mother went to wish him goodnight she found him sitting in front of the window. He was gazing, absorbed, at the stars. His face had a gravity that Amalia did not know.
With a look in his eyes, a funny grimace and a smile, his mother asked him, without words, how he felt.
"Remember when you told me Grandma would become a star?"
Amalia didn't answer, just dragged a chair over and sat down next to her.
Is there a problem, Sam?
No. Well... yes! A big theoretical problem. I don't want to discuss it with Dad yet. I can tell you.
Sam began to tell how the idea of alternate realities haunted him, how his grandmother had woken him up a few times in the wee hours of the morning in the middle of a repeated dream, just as he was looking at himself writing down a formula. It was an equation explaining the trajectories of small amounts of energy. Mom, I think I have made a great discovery! I have begun to scientifically substantiate something that has always been said. I think I can prove that our ancestors' energy went back to the stars.
Sam continued talking, his mother listening without interrupting him. She was accustomed to scientific language and learned that she didn't have to understand everything in depth. It was enough for her to feel the passion for the objects of study, that sparkle in the eyes, that form of sensitivity that turned scientists into a kind of cryptic poets, misunderstood most of the time.
He knew that his son, loved, indulged and protected throughout his growth, might be in for a fierce struggle as he postulated a new way of looking at the stars. It's not easy to change people's thinking. But she was sure she would see him succeed, her husband had assured her.
As Sam explained to her how the energy ascended in space, she imagined herself at the moment when her own energy would transform, merging with her ancestors, forming a ball of light that would then send its rays out into infinity, seeking the direction of the window of the room where her son slept, to illuminate it with its eternal light.
A feeling of peace and happiness filled her chest.
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Una historia muy hermosa donde creer y probar lo que se cree no riñen sino se complementan y al final el mensaje de que en las estrellas siempre estuvimos en energía de amor.
Thanks for the kind read.The pair science - religion has always been considered as polar opposites. I disagree with that idea. I believe like you, @joalheal, that they can complement each other very well.
What a nice way of connecting Science with a dramatic story. I am fascinated to the way you delivered it.
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What a terrific story, @gracielaacevedo. I found it fascinating that when Sami began to study in earnest the idea of where a person's energy goes when they pass on from this life — and he had a scientific explanation — that he wanted to tell his mother, not his scientist father. Like she is testing ground for ideas. That was really sweet.
This is beautiful told, and a great read!
I wanted to play a little with the presence of gentleness in poetry, next to the rigidity of certain scientists... Who but a poet can accept all the strange ideas...? Thank you for your kind reading, @jayna.
Wonderful mix of the scientific with the magical, immaginative, and spiritual. Combined to deliver a heart warming and beautiful story.
The conservation of energy, schrödinger's cat, and the original source of the elements in our bodies in this case.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
It makes sense for Sam to entertain the idea with his mom first rather than risk being shunned and ridiculed by a hard headed scientist.
That was a beautiful ending.Hello @yaziris ! I like that you have identified Schrödinger's Paradox. It is a postulate that makes think the physical away from the static idea of physical laws.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination surrounds the world".
I am no one to criticize Einstein, but this phrase that opposes imagination and knowledge does not really seem correct to me. No one can imagine what he does not know, only from a certain knowledge we can imagine. The opposite is also true, without imagination there is no knowledge. So these two manifestations for me are complementary and cannot be opposed.
Thanks for the attentive reading and for the generous comment, @yaziris
I actually agree with you about the complimentary relationship between imagination and knowledge, their "opposition" is more like the Yin and Yang if anything.
To defend Einstein's point of view a little, however, we have to keep in mind the field he was indulged in, and the very knowledgeable people he was running against. I believe that's what he said after he proved his -preposterous at the time- ideas, and very imaginative view to be correct.
It was his way to express his triumph over his peers who were considered more knowledgeable than him.
What an easy read. I really enjoyed how you connected the science to the spiritual. Even in the real world, I have always felt like they were connected. Connected at some prime level that we have yet to understand.
Also, I am currently reading Foundation, and this felt real nice in my current head space. 😁
It is also nourished by words that give it a charge of spirituality from which it cannot yet detach itself. There are those who say that science has become a form of behavior that bears familiarity with religious rituals. There is a great deal of discussion among scientists about this.Thanks for reading and for this comment, @grocko. I think science is a very new human process, incipient, if we compare the evolution in time of humanity.
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Very light and easy reading. The theme of science, life and death, and family are all powerful subjects. I love the way that everything meshes together. The contrast between a poet mother and scientist father also creates a nice tension in the story. Amalia being the one more likely to be approached by a son needing understanding than an explanation. Fantastic read. Congrats on this story.
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About the tension between the poet mother and the scientist father I can tell you that I have met very metaphorical scientists and very systematic and rigorous poets.Thank you very much for reading and the kind concepts, @juanvegetarian. I like that the reading was light and easy when the topics are deep. I see it as an accomplishment. I didn't lose my many years of teaching, hahaha.
Welcome, @gracielaacevedo. Yes, I agree that this is a great accomplishment for writers. And, your years as a teacher shows in your writing as well. Good work and eager to read more from you. :)
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Sam decided to study the unknown world of Quantum Physics because of the explanation he was given about the death of his grandmother.
He integrates science with spirituality. Even paranormal conditions are cited when Sam is awakened by his grandmother and Sam finds himself writing and discovering a formula to explain how his grandmother's energy returns to the stars.
I loved it from beginning to end
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