Poem: "A Girl's Best Friend"
This poem was inspired by a prompt from ellenmillion. It is presented as today's second freebie poem, courtesy of new prompter fortunavirilis.
A Girl's Best Friend
What makes a science hard?
It's there in the physicality,
Until you get to quantum physics
And reality turns slippery as teflon.
It's there in the graphism thesis,
Until you get to technical analysis
Which is not even in the field of science.
What makes a science soft?
It's there in the people,
Until you remember there are people in every science.
It's there in the sloppiness of language,
Until a linguist mashes it into graphs.
Where is the method in the madness?
It's there in the hypothesis and the experiment,
Until someone crops the data to get a grant.
It's there in the cause and effect,
Until you come back to quantum mechanics
And disconnect causality with the flick of a pen.
The hard and soft of scientific method remain subjective.
This field is wide and blooms with many flowers.
The world is analog and language is digital.
Even agreement is a fleeting thing.
Yet underneath it all lie the principles,
As clear and shiny as stones:
Observe the world.
Learn from it.
Make educated guesses.
Test them.
Be prepared to change your mind at need.
These are the diamonds of science, and
Diamond science is a girl's best friend.