Something missing -Cold Dark Matters

I got a kick out of listening to Non-scientists discuss Einstein on BBC Radio 4.

The discussion on Programme 2 Dark Matters

Artist Cornelia Parker explores her ground-breaking (literally) work Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View which involved getting the army to blow up a garden shed in order to re-create the first moments after the creation of space and time.

was inspiring---

< a cosmic’s constant


Underwear is unnecessary said the impertinent scientist
Hidden pleasure is a my hypothesis
Observations are collected all day in the darkness
of missing unmentionables in a waste elimination zone
The budding scientist kept her secrets hidden
She could not find a place to publish her journal entries
but she discovered while repeating her results
why Einstein had eliminated socks as a variable
as he built his theory of time and space
The truth of her miscalculation was uncovered
by accident when a big boom scared her pants off