Translate the Equations

Translate the Equations


Aubrey Lieberman

12/28/25


Most of us need people like Sean Carroll, Ian Stewart and Janna Levin, to name just a few, to translate the equations.


People who are highly proficient within the fields of mathematics and theoretical physics might not agree, but I know better.


I love the equations. They are like written music on a page, but I can’t hear it. Academic musicians, in the broad sense of that term, can. I look at the equations in awe, but I can’t hear them. Somebody has to sing to me.


I feel perfectly free living in the land of metaphors. I’m human. My reality is virtual anyway, a tried and true tool for survival. Thank you, evolution.


Metaphors will not give us an MRI machine, a James Webb telescope, or a gamma knife to kill cancer.


A world without poetry would also be fatal.


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Guiding Bibliography


Carroll, S. (2016). The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. Dutton.


Carroll, S. (2019). Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime. Dutton.


Stewart, I. (2012). In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World. Basic Books.


Levin, J. (2016). Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space. Knopf.


Penrose, R. (1989). The Emperor’s New Mind. Oxford University Press.


Damasio, A. (2010). Self Comes to Mind. Pantheon.


Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press.


Lieberman, A. Selected Poems and Essays.

https://aubreyliebermanpoems.blogspot.com

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