physics
Rarified
RARIFIED The physicist had reached the end of equations he’d toiled for years. Excited, he called an old friend, to invite him out for some beers. When asked about the occasion, he smugly announced he’d worked out the quark confinement equation, beyond any shadow of doubt. For strings of ev’ry dimension his elegant math […]
Read more "Rarified"Higher Dimensions
HIGHER DIMENSIONS From point to line to plane to sphere we see just three dimensions here, and each dimension has a name that we can easily proclaim. If we would further interact, we must devise the tesseract — a cube that turns its outsides in, spinning in imagination — and thus we have dimension […]
Read more "Higher Dimensions"SOLIDLY Ethereal
I thought I would introduce this post with a (reverse) fibonacci. The number of syllables in each line of the poem is the sum of the following two lines. Now, here is today’s featured sonnet on atomic structure.
Read more "SOLIDLY Ethereal"Don’t Look Now
DON’T LOOK NOW Particle photon through twin slits concurrently – light laps like waves. Flash!
Read more "Don’t Look Now"OBSERVING OBSERVERS
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"Causal Controversy
Chances Are
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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Unusual for a Shakespearean sonnet, perhaps, Special Relativity is summed up here in iambic pentameter. Press play to hear this read by the author.
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ILLUMINATED The physicists in their studies transcribe formulae that define reality. Theirs is a cloistered yet secular tribe that daily deals with strict duality. Foremost, their math must be made to agree, precisely, with all that can be observed, though, often, what we are able to see can misinform, they must not be unnerved. […]
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BARD OF MARS 