RIP-OFF

I'm stealing this image from Don Collins because it's beautiful.
http://www.warren-wilson.edu/~physics/PhysPhotOfWeek/PPOW/

His "physics"  always  goes over my head, reminding me of my ignorance
("which my growth requires").  A revelation for me came years ago when
I discovered a book called Physics as Metaphor, by a physicist named Jones.
It was on a shelf in Fred Solomon's office. I read it with astonishment--stunned,.
not having before entertained the  notion that physics might be metephorical, too
if not metaphysical. . 

Here's Robert Frost's version
(somewhat: reduced, of course,
ripped-of from  a larger whole.):

The other day we had a visitor here, a noted scientist, whose latest
word to the world has been that the more accurately you know where
a thing is, the less accurately you are able to state how fast it is moving.
You can see why  that would be so, without going back to Zeno’s
problem of the arrow’s flight. In carrying  numbers into the realm of
space and at the same time into the realm of time you are mixing metaphors,
that is all, and you are in trouble. They won’t mix.  The two don’t go together.

...Everything is an event now. Another metaphor. A thing, they say, is all event.
Do you believe it is? Not quite. I believe it is almost all event. But I like
the comparison of a thing with an event.

...What I am pointing out is that unless you are at home in the metaphor,
unless you have had your proper poetical education in the metaphor, you
are not safe anywhere . Because you are not at ease with figurative values:
you don’t know the metaphor in its strength and its weakness.

You don’t know how far you may expect to ride it and when it may
break down with you. You are not  safe with science; you are not
safe in history.

http://www.en.utexas.edu/amlit/amlitprivate/scans/edbypo.html