Continuity and Invention
Keep the chosen scientific relationship recognizable as language develops new meanings.
What a poem borrows should remain recognizable through transformation. A cycle returns; an irreversible process retains direction; a chosen numerical rule meets its counts. Such features give invention something definite to develop.
Analogy requires a chosen point of contact. Quantum superposition and uncertainty about public information differ. A poem can place them in relation while preserving the distinction between physical explanation and poetic extension.
Transformation occurs in language: an image changes scale, a sequence overturns expectation, or a returning sound carries a different emotional weight. The borrowed relationship then participates in the poem’s action.
Web reading edition adapted from Part I, section 3.2, of the revised English manuscript of Schrödinger’s Cat.