Tag: Nature — 10 posts
The Moon is the promise of the Sun
Fear not, tomorrow will come
Just look at its
Astonished face
Locked in place
To think
It cannot look away
Not once
Forgive us…
Some things
Are unspeakable
Even in reflection
I bathed in moonbeams last night
Showered in its fulgent light
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Really Useful Engines
Continued from Part 1:
“**But entropy, heat, past and future are qualities that belong not to the fundamental grammar of the world but to our superficial observation of it. ‘If I observe the microscopic state of things,’ writes Rovelli, ‘then the difference between past and future vanishes … in the elementary grammar of things, there is no distinction between “cause” and “effect””**1
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“you cannot step into the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing"1
Entropy is a fundamental concept representing change and flow in the universe. It reflects the transformation of usable energy and the complexity of information uncertainty navigated by life-forms.
In a recent article on inequality I incorporated the concept of entropy, so it seemed worthwhile explaining this much misunderstood concept:
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This article has been created using a new public AI Notebook:
Climate Change, Ecological Disaster and Civilisational Risks
The Notebook features a range of key scientific and cultural sources. The complexity of these issues and depth of the data lends itself to a publicly available database for people to conduct their own queries. I hope it is useful, particularly for a new generation more interested in solving the problems we face than getting rich whilst watching the world burn.
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Poem and AI song & video
Audio version (my voice)
We Are Dawn
Shy moon
Hiding with
Dwining stars
Slow sun
Sauntering o’er
Weald and tor
Green land
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Breathing loam
Seeding sky
Like many poets and prophets, Leonard was (we hope) not wrong - just early.
**"It ’s coming to America first / The cradle of the best and of the worst / It’s here they got the range /And the machinery for change / And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst / It’s here the family’s broken / And it’s here the lonely say / That the heart has got to open / In a fundamental way / Democracy is coming to the U.S.A"**1
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poem for a wedding
Write me a poem about being together…
One wonders when to rhyme it with weather
Or whether to say
Weathering the storms altogether
And yet like relationships
The best lines of a poem
Are not made to be a perfect fit
In poetry & life we must aim
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Palpitating
Shiver of sea
Sparkling splinter of
Numinous ocean
Gifted personality
The Great Green
Divested of all terror
Its playfulness distilled to
Living livery of wave
I return new-born
With Dawn’s
Rose fingered bloom
To find you
Hoping you will
Humour me
(It is you who decides
whether we shall meet
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Little escaped their minute attentions and predations:
The Soul, an early casualty
Of more precise instrumentation
Senescence, just another
Dragon to be slayed
The mysteries gave way
To complex refutation
AI generated image
Too few paused
To wonder whether
Ever quicker
Computation
Would unleash the
Ancient iron law
Of more is less
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’ I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves. The branches, and the wind, and the rain. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.’ - Anthony (‘The Father’)
Struggling wordlessly into the light
Startling eruption of limb
As green as green has ever been
Flowing and fumblingly growing
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