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Astraddle an ever expanding saddle

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Posted on: July 16, 2008 9:08 AM, by Selva

saddle.jpg

Our eyes prefer to suppose
That a habitable place
Has a geocentric view,
That architects enclose
A quiet Euclidian space:
Exploded myths - but who
Could feel at home astraddle
An ever expanding saddle?

-From W. H. Auden's After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics

Very cool. The saddle, if you are unaware, is one of the possible shapes of space (see a fun NASA factcard).

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