Science in Ordinary Experience
A journey, sensation, or remembered place can become a starting point for inquiry.
Sound involves vibration; scent moves through air; touch brings pressure and temperature close to the body. Scientific attention can reveal a process within a familiar sensation and provide another way into the scene.
Travel joins distance and speed with migration, memory, and return. Landscape brings geological time into contact with weather, history, and attachment. Choose the relationship that changes how these elements are perceived while preserving the place’s particulars.
Public events can also enter this practice. Scientific relationships may suggest analogies for disputed information or boundaries. Keep the analogy distinct from a scientific explanation of society, and give the poem significance through its own language and form.
Web reading edition adapted from Part I, section 5.1, of the revised English manuscript of Schrödinger’s Cat.