RE: The Magick of Physics by Felix Flicker is well-written, endearing, engaging, and maddening

[carolkean]

Brian Keating - ooooh, he teaches Poetry for Physicists???
Poetry for Physicists

.... essays by physicists such as Brian Greene, Richard Feynman, and Michio Kaku along with poetry (by poets ranging from Shakespeare and Keats to the most contemporary) which somehow addresses, exemplifies or complicates aspects of scientific thought.



In 2014, amidst the purported detection of a long-sought signal heralding the "spark that ignited the Big Bang', Keating was busy co-teaching a course at UC San Diego entitled "Poetry for Physicists", with Pulitzer Prizewinner Rae Armantrout. His first book, Losing the Nobel Prize was ranked a Best Science Book of the Year by Science Friday, Physics Today, Forbes Magazine, and selected as an Amazon Editors' Pick as a Best Nonfiction Book.

Keating's second book, Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, is based on interviews from his top ranked podcast, The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner distills the life-lessons of 9 Nobel Prize winners into a self-help guide for STEM professionals and beyond.

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[owasco]

Oh I bet those poems are really lovely, elegant like a fully reasoning and questioning mind. Yum.

[carolkean]

and, because I rarely shut up and leave the pc to go pull weeds (it's just sooo hot and buggy)....
Here are 12 poignant poems (and one bizarre limerick) written by physicists about physics, and I'm not gonna block quote all these paragraphs.

It can be said that science and poetry share the common purpose of revealing profound truths about the universe and our place in it.

Physicist Paul Dirac, a known curmudgeon, would have dismissed that idea as hogwash.

“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way,” Dirac grouched to a colleague. “The two are incompatible.”

The colleague to whom Dirac was grumbling, J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a lover of poetry who dabbled in it himself — as did, it turns out, quite a few great physicists, past and present. Physicists have often turned to poetry to express ideas for which there are no equations.

(More at the site linked above)

[carolkean]

[carolkean]

I have not read his poetry yet, but this physicist is a brilliant indie author and publisher of anthologies and promoter of fellow indie authors.

THE SEMAPHORE COLLECTION (5 book series)
Kindle Edition
by Samuel Peralta (Author)

Semaphore is a literary project/persona by Samuel Peralta. As one of the first streaming original poetry on social networks, Peralta's project became an online phenomenon, with over 10M downloads of 300+ poems, acclaimed for their emotive impact and craftsmanship. Originally texts and posts on multiple platforms, the poems have been collected and preserved in the Amazon-bestselling books of The Semaphore Collection.

Peralta's poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC, Best American Poetry, the League of Canadian Poets, the Shanghai Book Fair and International Literary Week, and elsewhere, and has won numerous awards, including the Palanca Memorial Award for Literature. He is a physicist, author, anthologist, independent film producer, and founder of the Lunar Codex cultural archives.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22340993-war-and-ablution