{"product_id":"the-feynman-challenge-poems-on-science-9781909954892","title":"The Feynman Challenge: Poems on Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems about the universe: from the sub-atomic level to the cosmic, from bacteria to complex life and exoplanets.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe physicist Richard Feynman challenged poets to step aside from metaphor and capture the stark magnificence of the universe. Spurred to action, James Thornton opened himself to wonders and dived deep into the intricacies of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLet his poetry open your eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplete with an essay on Poetry and Science.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this unusual and exceptionally interesting work, James Thornton speaks as both a poet who has colonized science and a scientist who speaks a poetic tongue.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- Edward O. Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant introduction to the endless wonders of our universe, from quantum levels to the cosmos. It opened my eyes to many marvels and oddities.\" – \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEberhard Fetz, Professor of Physiology, Biophysics, University of Washington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Poets sometimes flinch at the idea of footnotes. Poems, they think, should be perfect small worlds of their own. The Feynman Challenge upends this aesthetic. Like the Pompidou Centre, it wears all its workings on the outside. Plunging into the sea of scientific knowledge, it comes up grinning and glittering with droplets of lovely information. This is a generous book, happy to serve the curiosity, the wonder and humility of science, happening here and there in words that simply send a shudder -Two black holes are about to marry, a billion years ago - through our sense of time and space.\" \u003cb\u003e– \u003ci\u003ePhilip Gross, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCensus of deep life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmbodied semantics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf mice and scorpions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRumination and forest bathing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA dozen ways to make a living \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe future of clouds \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe jaguar sometimes bites \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSymbiont real estate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePáramos\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe apex predator guild\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour inner fish\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTomb blossoms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong ago and under water \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraumatic matings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuartet with parasites\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dead fish of Chad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lodger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike milkshakes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHungry daughters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rolling of the dungball\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHead of glass\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFringed with teeth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE.O. Wilson’s favourite ant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEminent Britons\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAerial wars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenis Envy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe news about Neanderthals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConquering Earth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA century of gorging\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bulletin from our branch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarm wet and quantum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew equilibria\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rules of loss\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpat 1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChiropterans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCount those lost\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoelacanths among us\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQ is for cryptography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRingdown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe end of time \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToo few to fill the sky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever forget red dwarfs \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe biggest star \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCosmonautika \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA time will come \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy grace of the solar wind \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA map of peculiar velocities \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barbican Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020785647959,"sku":"9781909954892","price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781909954892.jpg?v=1750784384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-feynman-challenge-poems-on-science-9781909954892","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}