Comments on: Poetry and science http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/ The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:28:22 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mal http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/comment-page-1/#comment-77593 Mal Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:47:22 +0000 http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/#comment-77593 John Gribbin in is his 'cat book' quotes Sir Arthur Eddington who used 'Jabberwocky' to highlight quantum weirdness. Suggests replacing 'spin' by a nonsense world like 'gyre' (and even electron by tove!) Adding numbers makes it all scientific: "Eight slithy toves gyre and gimbal in the Oxygen wabe..." John Gribbin in is his ‘cat book’ quotes Sir Arthur Eddington who used ‘Jabberwocky’ to highlight quantum weirdness. Suggests replacing ’spin’ by a nonsense world like ‘gyre’ (and even electron by tove!)

Adding numbers makes it all scientific: “Eight slithy toves gyre and gimbal in the Oxygen wabe…”

]]> By: Stuart Atkinson http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/comment-page-1/#comment-74546 Stuart Atkinson Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:34:33 +0000 http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/#comment-74546 Hey, some poets manage to wax lyrical about astronomical events and places... Anyone wanting to read some astro-poetry is cordially invited to take a look at my website here... http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/TheVerse ... and at my most recent poem, which is now featuring on the EPOXI mission website... http://epoxi.umd.edu/6outreach/SAtkinson_FromADistance.shtml :-) Stu Hey, some poets manage to wax lyrical about astronomical events and places… Anyone wanting to read some astro-poetry is cordially invited to take a look at my website here…

http://journals.aol.com/stuartatk/TheVerse

… and at my most recent poem, which is now featuring on the EPOXI mission website…

http://epoxi.umd.edu/6outreach/SAtkinson_FromADistance.shtml

:-)

Stu

]]> By: Alice Sheppard http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/comment-page-1/#comment-74202 Alice Sheppard Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:09:00 +0000 http://chrislintott.net/2008/07/23/poetry-and-science/#comment-74202 I recommend that Nick Laid start off with chemistry for poems. "The Biochemist's Songbook" is hilarious, excellent and has the most exquisite rhymes. A quick taste can be found here: http://members.tripod.com/~sunybgrad/biochem-songs.htm And: Johnny was a chemist Johnny is no more 'Cause what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4. Perhaps poetry will evolve, and we all just need more time to get familiar with immense spinning spheres of methane and ammonia. Who knows? I recommend that Nick Laid start off with chemistry for poems. “The Biochemist’s Songbook” is hilarious, excellent and has the most exquisite rhymes. A quick taste can be found here: http://members.tripod.com/~sunybgrad/biochem-songs.htm

And:

Johnny was a chemist
Johnny is no more
‘Cause what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4.

Perhaps poetry will evolve, and we all just need more time to get familiar with immense spinning spheres of methane and ammonia. Who knows?

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