Big Bang poem | “There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side”
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- A stitch with Hank Green (@hankschannel), turned into a nursery rhyme like poem about the Big Bang, the origins of the universe, and other cosmic questions.
Before the Big Bang
There was no up
There was no down
There was no side to side
There was no light
There was no dark
Nor shape of any kind
There were no stars
Or planet Mars
Or protons to collide
There was no up
There was no down
There was no side to side
And furthermore, to underscore
This total lacking state
There was no here
There was no there
Because there was no space
And in this endless void
Which can't be thought of as a place
There was no time
And so no passing minutes, hours, days
Of all the paradoxes
That belabor common sense
I think this one's the greatest
This time before events
Because how did we get from nothing
To infinitely dense
From immeasurably small
To inconceivably immense
But before we get unmoored
From the question at the start
Let's take a breath and marvel
At when math becomes an art
Because we don't have to understand it
To know there was a time
When there was no up
There was no down
There was no side to side
Elle Cordova
She's giving Dr.Seuss a run for his money
He been real quiet since this dropped
@@Lanthanum. I'm so tempted to say it.
Just thinking that.
@@Lanthanum.he’s also been real quiet since he dropped (dead)
Right? Dr Seuss for adults!
As a father to a toddler, I can tell you that this is far better than MANY children's books. Please write one.
Honestly though, I would get this in a heartbeat
Great idea!
It would be really hard to illustrate!
@@commonbrown or reeeeeally easy
@@BlazzaBlu One might say super easy. Barely an inconvenience.
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
An Elle and Hank mashup is just pure joy.
Well done!
Love these comments
This poem demonstrates your mastery of language so well but, additionally, it is very interesting. Well done! (Glad to be about the first to commentate on your new channel - good luck!)
Yup! Again: Exc-Elle🧠💕-nt! 🤯:-)
you don't have to master language to rhyme,
why, I do it all the time!
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fu LOL. As someone who writes quite a few poems myself, I entirely agree. In fact, very few of mine do rhyme and I'm not generally enamoured with those modem ones which do. However, Elle certainly has an ability to select the optimum words - one sees this in her song-writing all the time. Clearly, she is interested in such and probably always has been and she has a degree in English - which, again, demonstrates a great interest. So what is important is to select the best words to convey a meaning - sometimes serious, sometimes comedic, sometimes both together but always fresh. My admiration is for her craftsmanship with words and intelligence with formulating and presenting a cogent - and interesting - story. Cheers.
@@GarytongueBetz-vl1fuMore like you don't have to rhyme to master language. In fact rhyming tends to restrict poetry. So if you prioritize imagery and stuff over meter and sounds, rhyming isn't the best option.
@@MiscellanyToplucky, i can only rhyme whenni write, idk how to not
A uniVERSE
Good one
An underrated comment!
@@Zee_aka_Pretty Hey! Thanks
@@zuhararaamiz5572 Cool!
Beautiful.
This is brilliant. You are a rare person that sits in the tiny sliver in the middle of the venn diagram between 'content creator' and 'interesting person'
It’s comforting to know that there are creative people with this much talent in the world.
This world is broken
@@Ed_Row_Feez shut
It’s ChatGPT
@@ArnoldSig No it isn’t.
@@roylec It probably is
This. Was. Incredible. As a programmer, author and poet, I believe this has been your greatest work I've encountered, as of yet. Thank you
All 3 of those are the same I’d say.
Why is what you are relevant?
@@lugaidster I am so confused by what you are trying to ask.
@@lugaidster How am you be is?
@@lugaidsterHow am the are is?
Dear Ms. Cordova, I am a 70 year old retired NASA engineer. I love basking in the glow of your mind's creations. Thank you so much for all your posts!
Best comment ❤
My father in law is 70 and retired from the ESA. Maybe I should send him this short:)
Check out her song about Roswell NM!
I just realized. If we all came from one point. That means we're all related by theory. Youre all my science bros and sis.
@@jamierainz8514I remember you from the cosmic goo 😅
you should submit this poem to a literature magazine, this is actually amazingly good
My 7-y.o. son was mesmerized at your poem. I saw lights coming on and ideas clicking! Thank you
This needs to be a children’s book!!!
IKR IT WOULD BE SO CUTE IN SOME COLORFUL PAGES
Gonna give some kid existential dread 😂
@@clover4680 Tbh, this is something we learn as children and we accept it very easily.
YES, but I don't think most children will understand what some of the words mean
Nah the thing that would be great would be if that one guy Raps that book too
Made me smile. Hope Hank smiled too.
Oh, Hank is going to love this. Wow!! Expertly crafted.
Oh you know it.
@@trueXMotionFitness Your 'logo' (can't bring to mind the right term at the mo) is brilliant. I know it's to show 'fitness' but it _oozes_ joy. 🫶😍😁
@@ac1646it looks like what i think people do when they say "yippee!!!"
@@imdoingthisnowreally Lol. YES
Hank, without thought, set a nearly perfect rhythm. Elle took it and produced beauty.
Before the big bang, there was... GOD.
Top shelf, next level, Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss?
you silly goose!
that makes no sense, can you be this dense?
Do you even think at all?
....or do you go to the mall, stare at the wall?
You may need a shrink! why don't you think?
before you comment, all this verbal vomit!
Not Dr. Seuss, this sounds more like a Julia Donaldson book.
Reminds me more of Shel Silverstein’s books of illustrated poetry. Like “Where the Sidewalk Ends”. That was one of my favorites as a kid! I can’t even imagine how many times I checked that, and books like it, out of the school library in Elementary School.
That’s just part of why I love Elle’s style of creativity and wordplay genius, I suppose.
Shel Silverstein vibes for sure
@@PotterheadMandoI love that book so much. My dad used to read me that before bed♥️
I really hope Hank has seen this, because it's awesome and I bet he'd love it
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What I had not seen yet but which should not surprise me in the least, is that this young woman has her own library.
I feel a kindred spirit.
This is actually beautiful. In every conceivable way.
You need to contact Hank Green, and get him to make a children’s book out of this. He will do it!
She didn’t write this unfortunately
Ah. Who did?
@@georgetheconvictshe did actually
@@AndrewHalladayshe did
I love the addition of “he will do it!” Because yes, he really will do it, he loves a pet project 😂
This sounds like science by Shel Silverstein and it is giving PERFECTION...LOVE IT!!!
I really thought this was a Shel Silverstein for a min. MASTERY
That was my first thought too!
It sounds like Lewis Carol to me
@9JJ871 the rhythm does remind me of "The Walrus and The Carpenter"
MY FIRST THOUGHT EXACTLY
I never get tired to watch this...
"when math becomes art" goes so fucking hard
"this time before events" my favorite line
It's not as cool as it sounds, trust, was there and pretty boring.
The fun thing is its sort of wrong, because there was no time "then" so there was no time before events.
It's not so technical @@MihZiv
@@MihZivAnd there was not nothing. There was the singularity. But precision is not the point here I don't think. :)
@@t0dd000 matter time and space can't come into existence out of itself.
That's not logically sound.
Albert Einstein been real quiet since this dropped. 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️
Cus he’s dead😂
@@kidsoncoldwater6264 oh ooh look what you made me do
He's been silent for quite a while now
Its because he is in his grave cooking up an immortality potion, to cook up an even greater rhyme.
Albert been real quiet since HE dropped, tbh
DAAAAAMMMMNN
that deserves a like and sub 100%
i love poetry
Agreed!
This has sparked my adhd and it also sparked my father's adhd with this amazing made song ❤❤❤
Did anyone tag Hank Green yet?
She is just genius. Love her.
Please STOP!!!!
Dude. She didn't write that poem. Nothing against her, but she just read a poem. That isn't genius.
@@kevindepew8193 She did write this poem tho...
@@kevindepew8193 who wrote it?
@@kevindepew8193she did write that poem, kevin.
When you ace English Lit and Astronomy class with one banger. 👌
Some call it a *big banger*
I use this in theology class at a Catholic school. It is totally in line with Catholic teaching; in fact, the first person to purpose the big bang was a Catholic priest
Ive come across this one several times... Ive never scrolled past. And for some strange reason, I've ALWAYS had a lump in my throat... What a beautiful piece! It makes me feel the immensity of the universe and yet the uniqueness of the Now...
We need teachers like this.
this poem should be taught in schools.
Agreed
certain types of parents might not like that
No.
@@Ilovejesus9 Yes
@@ZenciiiiiWho wouldn’t like poems? In fact, I’d think poetry is beautiful.
This poem made me feel something after like years of just mind numbing boredom. Like I had truly forgotten the feeling of watching/doing something new and loving it. Idk why but as I grew I stopped watching new things and will just go back to the older favourites and repeat. Which is good too but it feels like stagnation. This poem reminded me of discovering something new you love. This is a long comment on a yt short and I'm embarrassed but thank you so much for this. You're one of a kind and I could only wish to be a fraction of the person you are.
You should watch Inside by Bo Burnham, it might be something you'd enjoy as well
No need to be embarrassed though
@@LegnidHey I felt something similar and I'm in my 30s! Just a whimsical poem on whimsical nature of our universe.
I was hoping to be educated about transgenderism. Do you feel as safe, more safe, or less safe with transgenders being accepted into the military. My daughter is a transgender and I am a United States Army veteran. I served from 1967 to 1970. The U.S. Army taught soldiers to kill. Now maybe it is about safe spaces I don't know really.Enlighten me.
I can't even remember the last time a poem written within the last fifty years has moved me like this. Extraordinary!
This is really good! Well written!
Absolute. Bars. Get this woman a slam poetry record deal.
Ummm she didn’t write this…
@@KalosChampionThunder Please be so kind as to cite who the author is. Because Google cites that Elle concocted this poem inspired by Hank.
You popped on my short feed recently. Got to say you're one of the most incredible people this planet has to offer. Please keep creating 🎉
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Same here. The algorithm nailed it this time.
Only One could make this world. The Master and maker of this universe
That's OK, you're allowed to be wrong.
"in this endless void that cannot be thought of as a place" - incredible line.
I couldn’t recite this in meter until I realized it’s “can’t”
Just say it faster it can be a meter@@geneyoon6128
Not really, void literally means absent of a place
@@ShitYourself7close-ish but no, that's not what it means.
How do you know it was a void?
“When math becomes an art” I love you.
I've never had my eyes leak so much from something so BEAUTIFUL...
In that time, before space and time, there was only a field of possibilities. A place where nothing existed and everything could.
She's a total genius. One of the best wits I've found on CZcams so far.
You realize these aren't her words! Nor are some of the others of the things she says. You may want to keep looking!
@@stephenjohnson9632 nope, it's completely logical. The fact you don't like it is totally irrelevant.
@@stephenjohnson9632 is that what she said? No, didn't think so, but nice way to attempt a strawman... someone didn't pay attention.
@@stephenjohnson9632god factor?
Really, blind leading the blind? What came first infinite time and space or finite time and space? Simple grasshoppers. Look at the number line. Finite can't increase to infinite but infinite can decrease to finite, logically infinite time and space caused the effect of finite time and space, eliminating a contradiction of nothing to something.😂😂
This has a cadence the reminds me of shel silverstein's poems in the best possible way.
my thought as well.
same style of poem. also love this poem
Iambic heptameter
Elle, you're so brilliant and fun. There should be more people like you on this World.
I have returned to listen to this poem so many times now. I love it so much.
I'm am very rarely, truly, impressed, this impressed me.
I’d buy a book full of these thoughts expressed so well.
100%
The tears in her eyes at the end make is touching.
Yeah.... I listened intently more times than any other video on CZcams.
Thank you
Meter, rhyme, AND science? Glorious.
Can't have science without metres
@@CoconutJones_ You can try with imperial system
If Dr. Seuss and Steven Hawking had a baby
Except the baby could stand and talk
XD weren't they both pedos?
And the baby wasn’t racist
More like seuss and neil degrass tyson, but yeah
And the baby didn't have a midget kink
Someone give her a Oscar🎥🏆
That’s ducking beautiful.
how is this poetic, scientific, mathematic, astrologic and philosophic at the same time
Astronomic*?
Funnily enough, she has a video addressing the deep distress mixing the two causes to Astronomy....
@@Ice.muffin oh hey i remember that... shit i offended astronomy didn't i
Astrology is a joke.
You forgot biblical. There was nothing then it was created. Lol
@@sumduma55No that would fall under philosophical. Especially concidering every religion has some version of "there was nothing, then something"
Chills, dude. This gave me chills. As someone who is a writer/author and loves physics/astrophysics, this was beautiful. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
ditto!
As someone who has written words on paper and looked at the sky. I agree
And it was inaccurate 😅
I should not have cried to that. It was beautiful
"How did we get from NOTHING, to INFINITELY DENSE?"
God.
Prove it
@@WeesloYT Before bigbang there is neither time nor space nor matter. These three have to come into existence all at the same moment.
Existence can't come from nonexistence, to argue so is gibberish, so it has to come from something outside of material existence. Etc.
@@WeesloYT As MelancholicHiraeth said, but on the flip side, even if you could prove the big bang theory it would not disprove God. I don't know about you, but when I make a world, I like to write a whole backstory for people to discover.
@@MelancholicHiraeththen who made god
@@MelancholicHiraethListen to her carefully there was still something before the big bang, the big bang was a reaction that caused the state of the universe as we now know it
I would buy this children's book for my kids, and literally every baby shower I go to for the rest of time!
That was beautiful
do it do it do it
I'll illustrate
I think they may struggle with words like paradox and belabour.
@@PMC889 NO!!! I want to illustrate!😂😂😂❤️👍🏻
Please turn this poem into a video story. It needs pictures or paintings like a kids picture book. This was so brilliant.
Hear, hear!!
Make it into a children's book. It would be a great addition to the Science cannon.
But there would be nothing for it to contain
Eternity is not time. Its a place.
i really like your spoken poetry. i could listen to this all day.
And this is why the internet is a beautiful place of culture and art and knowledge
@thehobbyisttries i see what you did there ☕️ 👀
I really love this poem! It captures what the universe is in words so greatly!
I LOVE the way you speak
There is someone who can create something out of nothing.
"how did we go from nothing to infinitely dense?
From immeasurably small to inconceivably immense?"
Line actually gave me chills gotdamn
God
The issue is its not nothing, thats just leads to the misunderstanding theists have about something from nothing
@@MR_42_nah
@@Sharp1200 ok, so how can life come from non life? If matter can't be created nor destroyed, then how can something come from nothing? You can't have creation without a creator.
@@davidmcfarland8967 could you elaborate?
This should be the prefix to any Physics textbook. Beautiful.
@@thehobbyisttriesExcept we can in fact get something out of nothing.
Vacuum energy.
And virtual particles.
Read about them - it's fascinating. And mind-boggling.
@@thehobbyisttriesincredible commentary
@@thehobbyisttries The problem is trying to apply a limited understanding (not you specifically, just a human brain in general) to something it was not designed for. From our sense, it very much was "nothing." No baryonic matter that we could interact with, nothing we as we are now could touch, feel, or see. Yes, the stuff was "there," but it didn't exist in a shape or form that we could at all interact with.
Check out the Higgs boson, that explains it pretty well. Before the Higgs boson and field formed, stuff didn't have mass.
@@thehobbyisttries We... we've literally observed the Higgs Boson and it's properties? Provably and repeatably, as you said.
As a physicist the line let's take a breath and marvel at when math becomes an art genuinely brought a tear to my eye. Beautifully put
In the space without a time, i could not comprehend. This tonic is the endless place with nothing where it sends. We walk along the side of it with parallel distinguished. The crossing out of low and high divided from the reason. Aware was not a lingual feign, the sample says its true. This wisdom reckons in the all and why it is belied. Throughout the further in to out a place of timeless fears. Does common sense truly say, God must be alive?
Time did exist, but we can't measure it before that because there was no gravity or matter for us to use as a tool, it was just energy
Dr. Seuss if he became a physicist
Prof. Seuss?
@@MrKezzerdrix nah it would still be Dr. Seuss unless he teaches a class.
,there was no God ,some find it odd.
@@briancheng1743A lot of professors with doctorates go by “Doctor.” But can you imagine calling a professor “Master” with a straight face?
Live long and prosper
This poem is the mixture of language and science. Beautiful!
I think you mean gay
@@KimmyJimmel69 Damn, guess everyone’s gay since we’re abiding to gravity.
@@KimmyJimmel69bruh 💀
She is a treasure!
That was beautiful. I was mesmerized.🎉
Dr.Seuss has been real quiet since this dropped
I feel like he was pretty quiet before this dropped
Bro’s really been quiet for a while now someone should probably check on him
Rumor has it he went north, found himself a gal, lived the simple life. Live of the land.
..
He’s dead
Here are the lyrics :
There was no up, there was no down,
There was no side to side,
There was no dark there was no light
Nor shape of any kind.
There were no stars, or planet mars, or protons to collide,
There was no up, there was no down, there was no side to side,
And furthermore to underscore this total lacking state, there was no here there was no there as there was no space.
And in this endless void which cant be thought of as a place,
There was no time, and passing minutes hours days.
And all the paradoxes,
That belabour common sense,
I think this one's the greatest,
This time before events.
Because how did we get from so nothing, to so infinitely dense,
From immeasurably small, to inconveivingly immense.
Before we get unmoored from the question at the start,
Lets take a breath and marvel, when maths becomes an art.
Because we dont have to understand it, to know there was a time,
There was no up there was no down there was no side to side
(Your welcome)
The 'When" is missing before the first 'There' in the last verse
The lyrics are in the description 😑
Poems aren’t lyrics 👀
Poems aren’t lyrics??
ambientexperience just decided to upset every artist
Saying "Since there was no time..." puts 'No Time' in a time frame. No Time is eternal, just like it says... No Time. It's what is called "the moment".
And God said, let there be light 💥
This poem truly left me speechless, and sitting in awe for a while.
why've you put a "s" on the end of nothing , ? .@@thehobbyisttries
It’s ChatGPT made, Jesus everyone’s falling for it
Im staring into space just trying to compute what just happened.....
@@ArnoldSig proof? Try to have faith in people, if you use it for everything it doesn't mean that others do
@@salmi2luccio I’ve used it maybe twice in my life. But you can’t trust anything online anymore. People want fame and views, mostly people don’t care whether their content is authentic
Someone tag Hank! This is too freaking good!!
You’re really special and I am glad I found your creations
Love this poem, how wonderful.
i cant be the only one who thought it would be “there was no here, there was no there, there was no anywhere”
When I saw the Star Trek Insignia on the book shelf- I thought ' my fellow adventurer at heart'.
- no words or poem was needed.
But I think she’s living in an Alice in Wonderland world where everything through the Looking Glass is backwards
This should be a picture book.
“Infinitely dense”
Yeah I’d say that describes most of us right now.
Beautiful, can't stop listening on repeat.
And then God said “ Let there be light”
Exactly!
It’s funny how many “scientists” think science disproves God when actually it proves there’s no way there isn’t a God.
Looking at a canvas of art from infinite perspective from the smallest to the macro😂 it's a relatively new concept to believe that it isn't creation, and I'm sure that it's a religion that will pass with time
Well it shouldn’t be so hard to prove if it’s so real shouldn’t it pal?
@@Soundism-tk8neThat's right. You can't have a creation ( or Big Bang ) without a CREATOR..( GOD ).
AMAZING. Brought a tear to my eye! Your words are Beautiful
No, I think This one is the greatest.
Math becomes an art, becomes a poem. Wonderful!
This reads like a Shel Silverstein poem. Love it :D!
My thoughts exactly!
Time is what man uses to keep track of the days, weeks, and years. Before man there was no time, nothing was around that needed to keep track of “time”. Pretty simple really.
Perfect. The main point being that math and science don't explain EVERYTHING - yet - but they do explain MANY things, and eventually the BIG things one small piece at a time.
Love your poems and delivery, Elle.
This is such a marveous poem. I want to save it to teach to my granddaughter.
After spelling class
@@lindaclairesartori
You had to go there? 😂
I hope Hank gets to see this
I think he did.. but went real quiet.
That was amazing. Subscribed 🫡
This is my favourite poem of all time