The love affair between science and poetry

[HuckleB]

http://www.afr.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/books/the-love-affair-between-science-and-poetry-20160613-gphvt1

"Poetry and science seem like opposites – but the two have long been intertwined. At London's Roundhouse in June, performance poet Robin Lamboll's take was wonderfully dramatic. It featured a shouting, angry and judging voice performance on "science being fun facts of the natural world and religion being Nietzsche's The Antichrist".

Watching it made me think about the flirtation of poetry and science and how deep a romance it is. In the late 1700s, scientific treatises were written in poetic form because poetry was considered the language of intellect and the future. In the 1800s, Lewis Carroll experimented with mathematical logic to create The Square Stanza.

And who can forget Dante's The Divine Comedy; a smorgasbord of history and religion which at its damning best was underpinned by solid science such as the action of gravity as he travels to the core of the earth and on Lucifer's fall through the galaxy.

In 1984, the paper The Detection of Shocked Co/Emission by physicist J. W. V. Storey was published in The Proceedings of the Astronomical Society of Australia as a 38-stanza poem, much to the irritation of his colleagues (and his sadistic pleasure).

Poetry in the DNA

Today, many poets embrace and explore both the confirmed and the working theories of physics, astronomy and nature, the most popular scientific fields for poets. The idea of scientists as poets is surprisingly common; a variation of the "writer with the day job".

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Yes, a good read.

Or so I think.

[lapfog_1]

1. Mathematics and Music - n/t

[HuckleB]

2. +1,000,000 ... 000

Anecdotally, I have a kid who always did well in math, and has been placed two grades ahead for math classes since first grade. He also began playing violin in first grade, but he really kicked up the practicing this past year, and I could see his math skills go through the roof from where they were, at the same time. Coincidence? Perhaps. Still, interesting correlation.

[proverbialwisdom]

3. She Blinded Me With Science - Bill Parsons (Acoustic Cover)

Fun song.

[HuckleB]

4. 30 Days of “Quantum Poetry” Celebrating the Glory of Science

https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/07/10/30-days-quantum-poetry-xyz/