Poetry- Physics &Science Entropy | 25 Jul 2008
Physics professor Mike Finn, in true liberal-arts style, incorporates poetry into his physic. The poem “Galileo Galilei” was written to force his astronomy students to consider the story of the great scientist in a new way. Once again, the Inquisition questioned me, Are you quite certain of what you have claimed to see? I sweated, [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 15 Mar 2008
Most people remember James Clerk Maxwell for his equations relating electric and magnetic fields, which revolutionized 19th-century science. But the Scottish physicist and mathematician was also an amateur poet, and this small collection, hosted by the University of Toronto, offers a rare insight into his opinions and personality: Gin a body meet a body Flyin’ [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 07 Mar 2008
The Measure I cannot move backward or forward. I am caught in the time as measure. What we think of we think of— of no other reason we think than just to think— each for himself. What is the measure of the poem: words, phrases, metrical feet, lines, stanzas . . . or thought? Each [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 14 Feb 2008
One pleasure of poetry is in speed of movement. Another is in the slow curve of the mind in response to that speed: We gradually embrace, in the dreamy slow motion of thought, the meaning of each quick gesture. The word “quick” includes among its meanings the ideas “alive” and “sensitive.” And the word “ponder” [...]
Books &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 24 Jan 2008
This is nice & interesting feature by Deva Sobel.. The Earth Whirls Everywhere The spheres of science and poetry probably intersect in all eleven dimensions, for poems, like discoveries, spring from insights of unusual acumen, expressed in concise, often symbolic language. I sincerely believe that e=mc2 could be construed as haiku. When I was writing [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 12 Dec 2007
Read this thought provoking Essay: By K.C. Cole People say that nothing is perfect. I beg to differ. The notion of symmetry is both perfect and nothing—a combination that gives it unreasonable effectiveness in physics. Summing up 50 years of progress in fundamental physics, David Gross recently concluded: “The secret of nature is symmetry.” Everyone [...]