As Bodhi enters the Atheist Den, Bodhi encounters an old wolf, Divine Clockmaker, examining a clock who turns to Bodhi and says:
nature’s laws are gears
within a cosmic clock
god wound it, set it moving
and reason guards the lock
i unite their ideas
from thinkers gone before
like the field’s great swan
and laws that planets store
i hold that space and time
are fixed and never change
forever in the universe
never to rearrange
Bodhi asks:
do others in this den
hold onto absolutes
fixed laws of nature
serving as god’s roots
Divine Clockmaker responds:
i am the most vocal
and they barely let me live here
like an embarrassing brother
my reputation they do besmear
Another wolf from within the den arrives and addresses Divine Clockmaker, dismissively:
your divine inspired clock
wound and operated
is an absolute myth
it never was created
The other wolf then turns to Bodhi and says:
my name is relativity
it’s an honor to meet you
please be wary of
divine clock’s absolute view
each personal clock
although operates the same
presents different times
based on motion and frame
the faster you move
the slower clocks drift
until time itself stretches
beneath light’s endless shift
space and time are relative
like a fabric under strain
a cosmic continuum
spread wide like falling rain
matter and energy
warp and curve the sheet
shaping all trajectories
earth bends to the sun’s beat
Bodhi responds:
what is this universal rhythm
what leads the cosmic dance
what causes the light show
when to the stars i glance
Relativity answers:
clockmaker’s gravity
was the opening act
but i further refined
with discovery and fact
if an object grows massive
like that of a dying star
it radically wraps our sheet
a hole black and bizarre
nothing escapes a dark star
it is a cosmic grave
where time and light collapse
beyond what laws can save
Bodhi replies:
if i understand correctly
does everything relate
connected by gravity’s pull
cosmos continues to create
Relativity answers:
yes all is connected
everything finds a route
nothing is fixed
nothing is absolute
Bodhi asks:
what about light’s speed
you said it does not change
that nothing can surpass
within the celestial range