of some things
stubbornly persist,
while others
(however devout-
ly we wish
would remain
considerable) gradually
diminish. But
this is just the way
it works with
significance:
there is no trick
on Earth you could pull
to arrange it;
as the known universe
expands, and our quarks
grow stranger,
the physicists
only grow more
and more certain
and the public,
less enthusiastic—instead
of the opposite.
