For Tonight's Coffeehouse

The wonder of it all is that we can wonder at it all

I'm learning to teach,
But really, I teach to learn.

On my desk - a Feynman quote:
"I, a universe of atoms - an atom in the universe."
We're big, complex, and miraculous
And yet..
small, insignificant, and pedestrian

In class, we start with mass and abstract to energy
"What is mass?"
"Well, it's really energy.."
So energy is mass and mass is energy -
What are we made of, really?

In class, we talk about space; we talk about time
"But we can't measure space without time
and there's no time without space"
So if time is space and space is time
Where and When is the Here and Now?

Light speed is the limit- nothing faster!
But the universe is so big and expanding so fast -
there are galaxies that we can never know;
Moving away from us faster than light.

Perhaps a physics teacher there is teaching to learn and learning to teach?
Miraculous and Pedestrian
All at once in the Here and Now?