A Poem By Richard Feynmann, The Famous Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Very Popular Teacher, Writer And Well Beloved Personality! Poem by Kiran Ashtekar
A Poem By Richard Feynmann, The Famous Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Very Popular Teacher, Writer And Well Beloved Personality!
There are the rushing waves...
mountains of molecules,
each stupidly minding its own business...
trillions apart
...yet forming white surf in unison.
Ages on ages...
before any eyes could see...
year after year...
thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?
...on a dead planet
with no life to entertain.
Never at rest...
tortured by energy...
wasted prodigiously by the sun...
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.
Deep in the sea,
all molecules repeat
the patterns of another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves...
and a new dance starts.
Growing in size and complexity...
living things,
masses of atoms,
DNA, protein...
dancing a pattern ever more intricate.
Out of the cradle
onto dry land...
here it is standing...
atoms with consciousness
...matter with curiosity.
Stands at the sea...
wonders at wondering... I...
a universe of atoms...
an atom in the universe.
Feynman's love and dedication for his first wife showed that he not only had the heart of a poet but that he was a true genius. The equation - I love my wife. My wife is dead. Is not as well understood as many of his other equations.
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4/25/2024 4:07:57 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Truest poetry : most non-anthropocentric : appreciating the inner workings of Nature. Appreciable only through an understanding of the most basic sciences: physics & mathematics.- Feynman: a genius of modern times.