Déjà vu
DÉJÀ VU Whisker tips confirm another dead-end result — white mouse learns the maze.
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Natural Selection
Natural Selection first appeared in Poetic Justice in 1984. Note: Barnacles begin life as free swimming crustaceans, but, at maturity, secrete the strongest known natural glue in which to secure their heads, and for the rest of their lives they remain stationary, kicking food into their mouths, using their legs as syphoning filters for plankton. […]
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AT ODDS Researchers seeking solutions can’t say, “Things are the way they are because of God.” From Spirit, scientists must shy away or risk their labors be seen as slipshod. The fraction of them considered devout must keep their studies apart from belief, not daring to proselytize about what brings their natures comfort and […]
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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. […]
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INTELLECT AND CONVICTION Einstein was brilliant, we all can agree. He opened up new possibility – the Theory of Relativity he worked out, questing for simplicity. His equation, E=mc2, is a well-accepted reality; there’s no doubt about how well it has fared in destruction and practicality. Though people know this, most don’t understand the […]
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SALT ON A BIRD’S TAIL “He went to catch a dicky bird, And thought he could not fail, Because he had a little salt, To put upon its tail.” — Simple Simon The Scientific Method doubts itself and runs experiments designed to fail — run once, or twice or all the way to twelfth, […]
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Method A useful premise permits prediction or else it’s science fiction.
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The lone quantum bit, unlike Frost, chooses both paths – interferes with self. The literary reference in this haiku is to Robert Frost’s poem: The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as […]
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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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“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
BARD OF MARS 