3 posts tagged “wave”
WHAT SHE WANTED
What she wanted was to return
to the original rainforest
hear water pushing
through the sapwood
and leaves eating light
as she wanted to eat light.
She knew her nature
was to be water, not wood.
She knew there was a grove
of vertical rivers
of roaring waterfall-trees,
and a grove of whirlpool-trees
with vortices she could dive through,
past the hollow years of her life
right back to the roots.
- Pascale Petit
via WhiskeyRiver: http://whiskeyriver.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-she-wanted-what-she-wanted-was-to.html
"The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out." ~Annie Dillard, via QuoteGarden.com.
But what exactly is a wave? Einstein and Infield, in their book The Evolution of Physics, describe a wave in this way: "The wind passing over a field of grain, sets up a wave which spreads out across the whole field. Here again we must distinguish between the motion of the wave and the motion of separate plants, which undergo only small oscillations....The essentially new thing here is that for the first time we consider the motion of something which is not matter, but energy propagating through matter."
