Life &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 05 Nov 2007
This is wonderful thoughts & poem on science & philosophy by Physicist Richard Feynman, form his book “Classic Feynman- All the Adventure of a curious character… “ Beautifully expressed & encapsulate. Kind of Meaning of it all… The value of science We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 01 Nov 2007
This is the third in the series of posts of introducing poetry of physicist John Archibald Wheeler. Isaac Newton, in his great Principia, first formalized our understanding of gravity as a force that acts at a distance through space, drawing any two masses together. It is often thought that Einstein’s geometric theory of gravity proved [...]
Poetry- Physics &Science Entropy | 26 Oct 2007
Continuing from my previous post, I present another poem by physicist Dr. John Archibald Wheeler. New York Times article By Dennis Overbye “Peering Through the Gates of Time” enlightens : Dr. Wheeler helped explain nuclear fission with Bohr, argued quantum theory with Einstein, helped build the atomic and hydrogen bombs and pioneered the study of [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 24 Oct 2007
Essentially, I would like to extend the motif of my fixation and fascination with Space & Time by presenting a few poems by Princeton physicist John Archibald Wheeler. The first of these is: Venture far To see the nearby With new eyes. Perceive yesterday’s gravity, Whether acting on man or mass, As today’s free float. [...]
Poetry- Physics Entropy | 20 Oct 2007
This clever Limerick expresses the exaggerating relativity’s violation of common sense.. There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned home the previous night. -Arthur Buller (1874–1944)
Philosophy &Poetry- Physics Entropy | 07 Oct 2007
Once again I return to my gentle obsession of exploring deep relationship between truth and beauty or Beauty and Truth. Essentially, Einstein rounded out three centuries of the questioning of Nature when he equated energy and mass in a single equation of E=Mc2 which arguably is the most widely quoted, used, misused, however least understood [...]