The theme of today's crowdfunding Creative Jam is Empowerment. Following up on yesterday's post, and the role of the Watt Balance (now called the Kibble balance, in honor of its inventor) in replacing the standard kilogram by defining the Planck constant as precisely 6.62607015×10−34 joule-seconds, I came up with: A watt ( Read more... )

This was written for the Thirteenth Crowdfunding Creative Jam, on the topic of "portals", in response to a prompt by wyld_dandelyon.

He logs in, writing the words With a long fingernail On the mirror's surface. Ripples Like a stone dropped into A pool of mercury. He steps through.

It's the first poem ( Read more... )