[Poetic Engineering]: O error

Planetaria obey the way

that clockworks work. Amusingly however

clock time is quite relative. Whenever

Russia, for example, casts a ray

to laser information from, let’s say

a Phobos lander on a Martian moon

to earth, let’s say, meticulously at noon,

the bad news is that Einstein’s thesis may

then be why lasers by some millimetres

miss their target at a decent range

of over two, three hundred billion metres

but the good news is – it may sound strange

as we build up knowledge of our ether

errors oftentimes inspire change.

Bauke Steenhuisen (universiteit docent bij de faculteit TBM) en Jeroen Manders (zanger, acteur, tekstschrijver, componist en voormalig IO student) verdichtten tussen december 2014 en maart 2017 42 keer een Delftse afstudeerscriptie of proefschrift tot een sonnet. Illustraties waren van Ella Nitters.

 

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