outside our ken; our own desert places, our own lunar distances.The great Danish physicist Niels Bohr, in conversation with Heisenberg, remarked: "When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as poetry. The poet too is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images." What is not visible is in effect imaginary, and it is not possible to talk about such a thing without metaphor.
from The Guardian: Quantum poetics
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