Wednesday, 12 November 2014

The Reification of Poincare, The deification of Wigner


The commander of Maths
So glowered at his page
That 1 = one
Was the scourge of the age

And whispers though true
That 2 = two
Were a most matheverbical
Synonym too

If symbols meant numbers
And numbers meant words
Then much could be written
Of summing absurds

That x=x, and you=you
And infinite proofs tautological through
Is only where Spacetimes
Hold logic as true.

REJ:- I understood none of that -

Dr.B:- The 'miracle we neither understand or deserve' is merely the ultimate circularity of empiricism within spacetime expressed. Relativity and QED will never be unified.

2 comments:

  1. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Poetry in Describing Love

    A Mr. Wigner penned a pome
    As bemused preface to a tome
    Astounded how the words he writ
    So well described his tale in it.
    How strange that words, along with signs,
    Portray the way our world aligns.
    Eyes, I have two.
    Yes, what a twist!
    Look, two’s a number on the list!
    How weird when one has eyes to see,
    That sums fit one’s reality.
    And odd, a sonnet draws my woe
    Since it was thought up long ago.
    Unfeasibly, verse scans Love’s plan.
    How queer a season’s like a man.
    A gift we cannot understand,
    No more deserve than breast or hand.
    What miracle! Thus it must be
    That Love is made from poetry.

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