#when instead he could've explored the same concepts (and they would've been arguably better served) with his art
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Light spectrum, from Theory of Colours – Goethe observed that colour arises at the edges, and the spectrum occurs where these coloured edges overlap.
Goethe's Theory of Colors
#well this is fascinating af#and also funny i mean this poet is out here hardcore bragging about challenging newton with what were ultimately cool ideas#that are perhaps of philosophical value but do not exactly qualify as scientific theory#when instead he could've explored the same concepts (and they would've been arguably better served) with his art#i mean i'd love to read a prose piece that compares darkness & light to the north & south poles#but presented as a groundbreaking scientific theory it feels silly#classic case of overconfidence. tragic waste of an opportunity to take some badass exploratory risks in poetics.#instead of trying to play another man's instrument he should've focused on experimenting with his own.#'my point is brendan if you're not immediately good at something then why do it' etc#also alternate histories are a whole genre so why don't people write alternate sciences? (i bet they have) why does no one discuss this?#don't worry i will absolutely be investigating further. we're gonna get all the way to the bottom of this one.
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