I overflow (a poetic joke)
Here I stand,
A majestic cascade,
In my hand,
A rose about to fade,
It was my friend,
Must rescue her from the dead,
I overflowed and killed it instead.
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Gün bitti. Ağaçta neşe söndü.
Every individual gives to his love a color, a poetry, a music that is his own, and that nobody else can give.
My own room was less overtly deficient—over the years I’d insulated myself from the rest of the house (the rest of the neighborhood, the rest of Ohio) with layers of ink and paper and poetry, like a squirrel lining a nest. James followed me in and stood looking around with obvious curiosity as I shut the door. The room seemed, for the first time, small.
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Let’s take as an example a simple and common phenomenon in the natural world: the rainbow.1 We can all agree that there is something enchanting about rainbows. Is their magic diminished if I explain to you the science of how they form? The poet Keats claimed that Newton had “destroyed all the poetry of the rainbow, by reducing it to the prismatic colours.” In my view, far from ‘destroying its poetry,’ science only enhances our appreciation of nature’s beauty. See what you think.
Rainbows combine two ingredients: sunshine and rain. But the science behind the way in which they combine to create the arc of colour we see in the misty sky is as beautiful as the sight itself. Rainbows are made of broken sunlight that reaches our eyes after the Sun’s rays strike a billion raindrops. As the Sun’s rays enter each water droplet, all the different colours of light that make up sunlight slow down slightly to travel at different speeds, bending and separating out from each other in a process called refraction.2 They then bounce off the backs of the droplets, returning to pass through their fronts at different points, refracting a second time as they do so and fanning out into the colours of the rainbow
Firstly, contrary to what many people think, science is not a collection of facts about the world. That is called ‘knowledge’. Rather, science is a way of thinking and making sense of the world, which can then lead to new knowledge. There are, of course, many routes to gaining knowledge and insight, whether through art, poetry and literature, religious texts, philosophical debate, or through contemplation and reflection. That said, however, if you want to know about how the world really is—what physicists like me sometimes refer to as the ‘true nature of reality’—then science has a big advantage, for it relies on the ‘scientific method’.