The Winds of Wonder

Matter illumines Night

Let Newton call matter but a brute thing,

Ungiven to change, tied by inertia’s string;

But wisely it was so, all gulping to avoid

By the spirit’s emptiness, the hungry Void;

However, now is awakened in it an urge,

From gainful voracity slowly to emerge;

Oh the physicist of change bears a name,

And his quests a gold-orange wonder acclaim!

13 November 2024

द्रव्यं रात्रौ प्रकाशयति

न्यूटनः द्रव्यं किन्तु क्रूरं वस्तु इति आह्वयतु,

परिवर्तनार्थं अदत्तः, जडतायाः तारेन बद्धः;

परन्तु बुद्धिपूर्वकं तथैव आसीत्, सर्वे परिहाराय गलन्तः

आत्माशून्यतायाः क्षुधार्तः शून्यः;

तथापि इदानीं तस्मिन् प्रबुद्धः कामः,

लाभप्रदभोजनात् शनैः शनैः उद्भवितुं;

अहो परिवर्तनस्य भौतिकशास्त्रज्ञः नाम धारयति,

तस्य च अन्वेषणं सुवर्ण-नारङ्ग-आश्चर्य-अनुमोदनं!

१३ नवम्बर २०२४

[1] “I saw Matter illumining its parent Night”

https://incarnateword.in/sabcl/05/evolution

[2] “They all laughed at Christopher Columbus, when he said the world was round. They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.” —George and Ira Gershwin

“ When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him .” —Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

https://www.thearticle.com/the-physicists