Comments on: Global refrigerator

By: spyder

spyder — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:19:06 +0000

Can be even more phun when you use a 6' section of whiteboard and a few thousand word magnets. When i retired, i took it with me, because everyday is a day for a poem.

By: John Farrell

John Farrell — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:12:55 +0000

Me, I prefer my poetry ’simple’:

http://www.mystanza.com/id34.html

By: Metre

Metre — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:38:55 +0000

“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”
- Paul Dirac (1902-1984)

By: richard e.

richard e. — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:01:13 +0000

Personally, I think the line of Prufrock most relevant to cosmology is this:

To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,

Which CLEARLY anticipates slow roll inflation, roughly sixty years before anyone else…

And if you want to use this as a witty opening to a talk, you have to cite me (and Tom E. for that matter.)

By: The Chemist

The Chemist — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:36:05 +0000

That line reminds me of the Lawerence Krauss paper which said we may have brought about the end of the universe. Or was it bring the end nearer? Not my area of expertise.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:55:41 +0000

Magnetic-poetry sonnets have a long and distinguished history.