Bits of the Universe

Things are looking more and more
Entangled, and one wouldn’t
Be prudent to place a bet

It won’t turn out that quantum
Systems retain some tangles
Even at high temperatures.

The computer scientists
And physicists are at odds
A little bit, as to this,

But one thing is, as it were,
Certain—it’s nigh impossible
To calculate such systems.

We’d like to zoom in on this.
Every time a group asserts
That in the whole universe

There aren’t as many atoms
Or there isn’t enough time
As calculations would eat

To calculate some aspect
Within some minor corner
Of the selfsame universe,

A piece of the universe
Asserts that the universe
Is too small to know itself.