
Fly! - Pedro Moreira
"As espécies que não desenvolveram a escrita valem-se da memória instintiva. O salmão sabe o caminho do lugar onde nasceu sem ter que consultar um parente ou um mapa.(...) Já o Homem pode ser definido como o animal que precisa tomar nota." Luís Fernando Veríssimo
(...)
And both hands
Now use both hands
Oh, no don't close your eyes
I am writing
Graffitti on your body
I am drawing the story of
How hard we tried
I am watching your chest rise and fall
Like the tides of my life,
And the rest of it all
And your bones have been my bedframe
And your flesh has been my pillow
I am waiting for sleep
To offer up the deep
With both hands
(...)
Caminhar. Sem rumo, sem meta.
Sentir o frio do vento, o calor do sol.
Fechar os olhos e esperar.
O encontro de 1941 de Bohr e Heisenberg continuará para sempre envolto em nevoeiro.
Certezas, apenas eles as terão e, com toda a certeza, serão diferentes.
Agrada-me pensar que o que me ficou da peça Copenhagen de Michael Frayn(vista há alguns anos no Teatro Campo Alegre no Porto) é uma certeza: que Heisenberg não construiu a bomba porque a sua consciência não o permitiu, e que Bohr e os restantes cientistas envolvidos no projecto Manhattan não sabiam de que forma essa mesma bomba seria usada.
Certezas? Nenhumas.
"In response to Bohr’s direct question as to why he didn’t make the crucial calculation, Heisenberg answers simply but convincingly.
H: Why didn’t you calculate it?
B: Why didn’t I calculate it?
H: Tell us why you didn’t calculate it and we’ll know why I didn’t.
B: It’s obvious why I didn’t.
H: Go on.
M: Because he wasn’t trying to build a bomb!
H: Yes, thank you. Because he wasn’t trying to build a bomb. I imagine it was the same with me. Because I wasn’t trying to build a bomb. Thank you.
(…)
Ironically, paradoxically, it was Bohr who, in a small way, contributed to the bombs that were dropped on
(…)
Heisenberg was treated with undeserved hostility and contempt by many of the physicists who had been involved in the U.S. Manhattan Project, some of whom were his former students or friends. On this, Frayn has Heisenberg comment:
When I went to
* http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princ%C3%ADpio_da_incerteza_de_Heisenberg
** excerto duma análise à peça em http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v21/v21n2p35_frayn.html; os excertos a itálico e negrito são retirados da peça.