LIT: A MEMOIR (MARY KARR) AND DARWINISM AS BASIS OF LOVELY BUT FALSE THEORIES

 An old sociological or Darwinian theory holds that when we’re looking to gin out babies, we’re biologically propelled toward the partner who’ll color in dull spots in our own genetic code. So when opposites attract, they’re biologically combining to form the perfect offspring

It´s a pity that these compact and satisfactory explanations are not scientifically rigorous, because they work as well as fables. Their problem is that they explain everything in hindsight, they don´t have the capacity of prediction. In this way, they seem like Psychoanalysis. It would be nice if there were an evolutionist justification for each old saying or proverb, like ´Think  the worst and you won´t be far wrong´, ´Spare the rod and spoil the child´,… I think it wouldn´t be very complicated, using Darwin´s theory as an excuse, to explain each topic or maxim

THE MAN WHO INVENTED MANHATTAN ( RAY LORIGA) AND CONTINENTAL DRIFT

 …with that invisible movement similar to continental drift that separates people who love each other.

Bravo for Ray Loriga! This is a brilliant example of how Science can help Literature on giving a great presence to your metaphors. You can tell, for things like this, that a good basic scientific education at school is worth it! They are also very interesting the metaphors in the opposite way, I mean, those you have to create to explain a physical phenomenon without using Maths or another Science. For instance, in Physics manuals, the waves are described as a transmission of energy without transmission of matter and someone thought it was like a rumour spreading troughout the country without nobody  moving.

So, metaphors are a kind of communicating vessels between scientists and litteratours and you can use them to give an elegant touch to a literary text and to get people without  great scientific knowledges to glimpse some complex physical phenomena