Heisenberg: Eliot-Pound Sequence

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Index Entry

"Heisenberg's indeterminism,

In which the act of measuring

Always alters the measured,

Would seem entropic were it not

For the experimentally realized knowledge

That the successive alterations

Of the observed,

Diminish

As both our tooling and instrumentation

Continually improve;

Ergo intellection's effect

Upon measurement and the measured

Is a gap closing,

And the pursuit of more truthful comprehension

Is successfully antientropic.

Before Heisenberg, T.S. Eliot said,

'Examination of history alters history'

And Ezra Pound,

And even earlier poets,

Reported their discoveries

That in one way or another

The act of thinking alters thought itself."

Citations

1. HO. LITTLE I KNOW, Oct '66, Pp. 53-54.