Variations: 1.Alice Travelling 2.Meeting Maxwell’s Demon 3. Music Notes 4. Monochord I 5. Ii Poem by Margaret Alice

1. Alice Travelling

Alice was absolutely thrilled
about flying with the Cheshire
Cat to deep space, flying through
the Milky Way, he showed her the
whole galaxy; the sun in the arm
of Orion swinging about the centre;
moving up and down in the pancake
plane of space, like a merry-go-round
horse; Alice clapped her hands;
the Cheshire Cat showed her
how the sun progressed in a
corkscrew movement forwards,
his minion planets corkscrewing
along; then she saw an electrical
mirage of a timeless universe
where all heavenly bodies appear
in all positions at the same time,
forming flowing lines instead
of little dots, just like a time-lapse
photograph of sorts; Alice never
had so much fun in all her life!


2. Alice Meeting Maxwell’s Demon

As Alice carried along, she came upon
Maxwell’s Demon, tall and lean with olive
skin, pointed nose, and eyes burning in an
intense glow; and he asked: Would you like
to see the law of increasing entropy being
broken? – Yes please, Alice said, the Demon
took her hand; suddenly everything began
to expand, growing big – and she was floating
in the air with Maxwell’s Demon, foggy tennis
balls were whizzing by, these are water molecules,
explained he; then Alice saw large particles doing
the tarantella; what are those, Alice enquired;
organic molecules in Brownian motion, the Devil
replied; then they saw a wall of packed tennis balls –
an ice crystal; Maxwell said; then with a tennis racquet
he swatted molecules in one direction; creating furious
agitation and molecules escaping through evaporation;
suddenly Alice woke up and heard the White Rabbit cry:
Holy Entropy, see the moisture boiling round the
ice cube; a statistical fluctuation in the law of entropy!
Alice smiled as Maxwell’s Demon winked…


3. Music Notes

Alice asked the Crying Mock-Turtle
about music notes, he said: Every note
has colour and form; the first, middle C,
is a red ball; to her astonishment Alice
had to draw and colour red balls – But
what of the sound? – Just wait, the
Crying Mock-Turtle gulped; The second D
is an orange icosahedron with six sides;
with a paintbrush Alice painted the
most beautiful one; The third E is a
yellow octahedron; Alice painted yellow
four-sided forms galore - And how does it
sound? Alice enquired in exasperation,
the Mock-Turtle sobbed: Red C pulsates at
288 vibrations per second; orange D at 324
vibrations - But what does it mean? Alice
cried; in zoomed Mary Poppins to save the
bewildered child: Alice, it means - sing with
me: Doh, a deer, a female deer, Ray, a little
dropp of sun, Me, a name I call myself...

4. Monochord I: Theories Monochord of Sound Harmonics

Then Alice met Mr Daniel Salter and
asked him: Please Sir, why are you
writing so furiously? -I’m writing
a book called ‘Cosmos Life Clearance’
What is it about? Alice asked; About
Pythagoras’ Theories Monochord(such
exciting theories had never been
mentioned to Alice before) explaining
Sound Harmonics form the building
blocks of the universe (Alice thought
those building blocks were found in
quarks!) - red light vibrates at the
same wavelength as the sound of the
middle-C note, but with many zeros
added to that; Chladni’s vibratory
physics indicates the shape of a sphere
or a ball is formed in producing both
middle-C note and red-coloured light –
therefore; sound, colour and form are
based on the same principles of
mathematics – called the Theories
Monochord of Sound Harmonics! - What
lovely ideas to play with, thought
Alice; why don’t grown-ups teach these
theories to children?

5. Monochord II: If Only She Understood Zero-Gravity…

Alice listened with wide-eyed wonder as
Mr Salter further explained: When we
replicate nature’s laws in mathematics,
we can use alpha and omega wavelengths
to duplicate matter and spirit; implosion –
as opposed to explosion- shows that when
an atom compresses or collapses violently,
like a star collapsing into a dwarf or black
hole; a whole new science will provide
the formula for using all the free zero-
gravity energy surrounding us – which is
not based on the use of fossil fuels or
nuclear technology – therefore will save
our world from destruction – and here
he regarded Alice solemnly: Isn’t that
the most important thing of all? – She
most vigorously agreed; saving the world
sounded grand and something to which
she would aspire - if only she understood
what zero-gravity meant!


George Gamow “Mr Tompkins in Paperback”