One of America’s greatest poets, Emily Dickinson remains largely an enigma. Dickinson tells how it is to be a human being in a particular moment, in compressed, hard, blazingly vivid poems. Her greatest seem not sung but forced into being by a craving for a kind of forbidden knowledge of the unknowable. Forever – is [...]
Science &Thought Provoking Entropy | 24 Apr 2009
This is a fascinating trivia on Time, arguably the most illusive entity.. Time- Space – & Reality .. The beginning, the end, and the funny habits of our favorite ticking force. 1 “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so,” joked Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Scientists aren’t laughing, though. Some speculative [...]
Philosophy &Poetry Entropy | 27 Feb 2009
As such continuing my fascination with -Time .. with T.S. Eliot’s – Four Quartets, in which Eliot uses language to reflect the finite nature of life and the infinity of existence. Time more than anything defines the contrasting dimensions of relative existence: an apparent snare with no escape, a continuum of change ever wearing away [...]
Poetry- Physics &Science 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 &Science 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. [...]