There’s a philosophical anecdote that’s relevant to physicists today: One must stay afloat and rebuild the boat when, out at sea, safe harbor’s far away. The cargo is loaded, voyage begun, and progress made can’t be abandoned now, […]
Read more "RIGGED FOR SUCCESS"EMERGENCE Eventually, from very simple rules comes great complexity.
Read more "Emergence"(Wait for it …) ENERGETIC EVENTS Quarks flee bondage from gluons in forced collisions and matter annihilation. One good thing about nature is that there’s lots of it. This poem is the more standard fibonacci form, in the line syllable sequence: 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 13 […]
Read more "ENERGETIC EVENTS"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"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"Sequel to BARD OF MARS INVOCATION Ubiquitous, therefore hard to assess, an elegant complexity is found, quite dauntingly difficult to express, innately lavish, vibrantly unbound. From forest to the desert or the sea, from far or in a microscopic view, at any scale, it works exquisitely, and wonder, awe and reverence are its due. Fit […]
Read more "View From Earth"If explanation is desired, a “bit” is anything with two choices (such as alive or dead, on or off, etc.) and is therefore binary (either/or). Of course, in the quantum world this binary distinction breaks down when unobserved and can become both and neither, simultaneously, until measurement (observation) occurs. Schrödinger‘s Outcome Schrödinger reduced his […]
Read more "Schrödinger‘s Outcome"OFF THE SCALE 🎧 The young lady known simply as Bright, who could travel speeds faster than light, said, “While I’m never late, I’m concerned that my weight reaches infinite mass, though I’m slight.”
Read more "OFF THE SCALE"DÉJÀ VU Whisker tips confirm another dead-end result — white mouse learns the maze.
Read more "Déjà vu"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 […]
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