I am a dancer, photographer, painter and writer; and I’m interested in physics, particularly astrophysics.
I have co-written, together with Professor Ofer Lahav, head of Astrophysics at University College London, two articles about dark energy, the mysterious substance thought to make up 75% of the universe:
‘Dark energy: back to Newton?‘ in Astronomy and Geophysics magazine, Volume 49, Issue 1, pages 1.13–1.18, February 2008, and ‘Dark energy: how the paradigm shifted’, in Physics World, January 2010 issue.
If you would like to use any of my photos, or my words, please ask my permission and give me accreditation. I won’t charge you unless it’s for commercial purposes.
You can contact me at lucy_calder@yahoo.co.uk
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hi lucy, thanks for share about your journey in Aceh, its a pity we cannot meet here :), as Achenese i do apologize about our services, as you know, since we live on war, now we get peace and then destroy by tsunami, our people is on move to build Aceh from zero, thank you for understand our culture and i love to guide you if you come again to Aceh. Thanks.
Best,
Farhan
Astrophysics vs Poetry (or : “Big Bang” according to the 19th century poet):
Polish poet Juliusz Słowacki [1809-1849] wrote between 1843/4-1846? a mystical prose poem entitled “Genesis from the Spirit” published in 1871. If we reduce the mystical parts of the poem to a minimum we arrive at a poetic description of the “Big Bang” :
“…The Spirit… turned one point… of invisible space into a flash of Magnetic-Attractive Forces. And these turned into electric and lightning bolds – And they warmed up [in the Spirit… You, Lord, forced him…] to flash with destructive fire… [You turned the Spirit… into] a ball of fire and hung him on the abysses… [And here… a circle spirits… he grabbed] one handful of globes [and swirled them around like a fiery rainbow]… “
So the poet described here a certain physical process with the following steps or stages :
– a flash of « Magnetic-Attractive Forces » (at one point of space)
– transformation into ˮelectric and lightning forcesˮ
and then:
– ˮwarming upˮ,
– – a destructive flash of fire, a fireball.
and finally appears
– ˮhandful of globesˮ…
This is how poetic intuition could anticipate the scientific discoveries… (see : https://www.salon24.pl/u/edalward/1334289,big-bang-according-to-the-19th-century-polish-poet-j-slowacki for more information )
See also :
„Artificial Intelligence about Juliusz Słowacki’s “Genesis from the Spirit” :https://www.salon24.pl/u/edalward/1439654,artificial-intelligence-about-j-slowacki-s-genesis-from-the-spirit
I just read your poems in obsessed with pipework. I love the spaces between the sentences that allow us to fill-in what we want. And I love the personal journey in lines like: every day, I learn something new, I have lost the accent I never had, I need to redefine my priorities. How can I read more of your poems?
Hello! Thank you for your kind comments! As you can see from this under-updated site, I’ve been very sporadic about putting stuff out into the world. I do have a lot of poems, but most of them aren’t published. And if I self publish them then I can’t send them to magazines. However, I am working on this, or anyway planning to work on this very soon! I appreciate your encouragement.