I wrote this last year when I was thinking about Ada Lovelace day, was looking for it again and realized I never posted it. Belatedly, please enjoy my rap stylings and wiki some inspirational ladies of STEM history.
xoxo,
Auntie Flow
(a love song)
I’ve never been one to express much more than doubt
But I got this new feeling and I need to work it out
It burns and aches and confuses
So I’m gonna call upon a different set of muses
Like Kovalevskaya I’ve got some conditions
for the existence of solutions to partial differential equations
With respect to all variables, and the seeming distinctness of your
physical phenomena
colorfully illustrated like Merian’s rejection of spontaneous
generation in Lepidoptera
it’d be easy to get all swept into poetical exuberance,
ascribing your finer attributes to divine beneficence
and pass like Diotima from appreciation of Beauty
to rapt spirituality
Would that like Aglaonike, I could calculate the time when we align
and make the moon disappear to blow your mind, an omen, a sign!
And like Tapputi, distill the essence of your select elements
to analyze the origin of my intents with ancient fantastic instruments,
then back to Earth like Tereshkova with stunning observations like Jump-Cannon
proving there’s more to chart than the many moons between now and then
when things were unknown but not unknowable, and I, too, just wanted
to be friends
What price a connection that through time and space transcends?
Would that like Lovelace I could write an algorithm, a system of instructions
to solving this mind-body dichotomy proposed by Elisabeth of Bohemia’s
deductions
that stumped Descartes, and goes on to list the order of operations needed
for two separate entities to interact unimpeded
Reason and feeling, my fear and your … ambivalence?
Apply some logic, check for false inference
Determine our positions in orbit, like Cunitz’s solution to Kepler’s problem
Diagram the intersection between best-of and more-than.
Here’s my hypothesis,
my educated guess
provisionally accepted,
based on the data collected
There’s a case to be made
shown in my visual aid
See Figure 1: Constructive Interferences
Mutual reinforcement produces
a single amplitude equaling the sum
of two individual waves becoming one
We’re better as a pair
I know what we’ve got is rare
But here’s my sentiment
Let’s do this experiment