Press play then scroll along QUARK OF FATE Since we ourselves learned how to create, we’ve pondered our night sky’s creation. “Twinkle, Twinkle,” was the song we sang, till Science showed stars are condensate of dust and background radiation from the silent light of the Big Bang. We thought their motions controlled […]
Read more "Quark Of Fate"Poetry and Science Science tries to answer some great questions, in fact the greatest questions of our day. At very least, it offers suggestions for how to frame these questions, anyway. This role is one that poets, too, have played. Both correlate their data to convey their particular premise and persuade, or at least to […]
Read more "Poetry And Science"“I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.”
– Paul Dirac to Robert Oppenheimer
“You forgot that science has evolved from poetry, and failed to see that a change of times might beneficently reunite the two as friends, at a higher level and to mutual advantage.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
OBSERVING OBSERVERS Per perceiving predilection’s effect, researchers search precautions to assure that their constructed theories won’t be wrecked by accredited critics who abjure results from lax experimentation which funnels too few affecting factors. Scientist’s psyches lack isolation – all audiences are also actors. Objectivity varies with the minds involved whose realities rarely budge; what one […]
Read more "OBSERVING OBSERVERS"For those who like to parse a poem, you may have noticed both gods and God appear in the first three stanzas. The reference in the first stanza to Einstein comes from the famous response he received from Niels Bohr for his often repeated adage expressing his distaste for quantum mechanical theory that God doesn’t […]
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BARD OF MARS 