To me, these are the kind of things that happen when I hear something about science. There will always be another half, it’s very Kafka-esque. But you have to get halfway to halfway, and halfway to halfway, and it’s obvious that you can never get anywhere if you keep going half that distance. Or Zeno’s paradox, where in order to get somewhere, you have to get halfway there first. I think we all know the Heisenberg principal - that you can’t look at a thing without affecting it you can’t measure something without changing what you’re measuring the idea that perception is actually an impediment to seeing something clearly - and to me that was always a poem, that principle is a poem.
I’ve heard researchers who have made scientific discoveries talk about how it’s often a poetic leap that leads them there, and not necessarily a rational way to get to what they’ve discovered or created. I’ve seen that science and poetry inhabit the same territory. I’m not a scientific person, but I guess I’ve written poetry in my life that’s sometimes been inspired by scientific notions.
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