Eureka: el enigmático poema de Edgar Allan Poe que anticipó teorías como el Big Bang y otras grandes ideas de la cosmología – BBC News Mundo

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1. Edward Maliszewski dice:

   enero 17, 2024 a las 08:28

   Science vs Poetry :
   E.A.Poe was the first to propose a revolutionary new view on our universe ?
   (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 )

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