ASTRONOMY TODAY A single, barely blushing pixel tells of another world that could be like our own – so far away, it’s at the resolution limit of our very best telescopes. nonetheless, it still speaks volumes within this dot. I love the form of the fibonacci in reverse for this particular topic. Its lines diminish […]
Read more "ASTRONOMY TODAY"FASHION’S MODEL The atom as a miniature solar system is a model we’ve abandoned for a century, yet we still picture it thus. The form of this poem is a reverse fibonacci. Like the Fibonacci sequence, you get the number of syllables for each line by adding the the number of syllables of […]
Read more "Fashion’s Model"Addictive Designs Originally published in Orchids magazine, this remains the only poem published by this magazine of the American Orchid Society, since it’s 1932 inception. James Ph. Kotsybar Renowned for what he’d long ago begun, John tried to take a step back from his life and figure out just what it was he’d […]
Read more "Addictive Designs"DILEMMA Faith is often blind, and that seems tragic. It drops to its knees, humble and devout. Science’s problem is lack of magic. It can’t accept the mystical throughout. Each sees light stream through a prism of glass. The pious think of stained glass and God’s bliss, and all but simplicity they let pass. […]
Read more "Dilemma"SCIENTIFIC TESTAMENT A scientist trusts in what has been proved through repeated experimentation. Assertions of faith will leave him unmoved until they have achieved validation. Religious beliefs often leave him cold and skeptical of professed prophecies based mostly on hearsay and tales twice-told, not carefully tested hypotheses. This doesn’t make him an atheist, though. […]
Read more "Scientific Testament"PROVEN ASSUMPTIONS There are, within the realm of common sense, a great many beliefs, unanalyzed because they command complete confidence, or they’ve been handed down until they’re prized. When Science sets out to investigate, and proves the wisdom we’ve known, all along, without the need to really cogitate, most laugh at its method and say […]
Read more "PROVEN ASSUMPTIONS"UNPUBLISHED FINDINGS They granulate the universe to pulp, crashing particles only newly found. They figure their trajectories and gulp, “So much data upon which to expound!” Their energies unbound by quantum course, they separate the world we think we know. They rip particles into force by force. Unification’s where they say they’ll go. At last, […]
Read more "Unpublished Findings"When the general public hears about A breakthrough in scientific research, They want to add their voices to the shout, So as not to feel they’re left in the lurch. That they have opinions, there is no doubt. They’ll foist themselves into the dialogue, When something sensational’s put in print. Though their comments reveal they’re […]
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