I like Ghalib very much. There is no doubt that no other eloquent and eloquent poet like Ghalib has been born in the subcontinent. Naseer-ud-Din Shah ordered Ghalib in Gulzar's play "Ghalib". Most of Ghalib's ghazals were sung by Jagjit and what a wonderful song. Now that I like Ghalib and science too, I often look for science in Ghalib's poetry.
An example of a mighty lion is:
Ah should have an age effect
Who has lived to be the head of your hair?
When I read Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, time is actually relativity and can pass at different speeds in different frames of reference. So I said, oh wow, how great it was that the Theory of Relativity was given half a century before Einstein.
Similarly, Ghalib had another lion:
Whose grief is the cure for death?
Candles burn in every color until dawn
So I deduced that Ghalib actually knew that white light is made up of different colors.
Now, if I conclude that Ghalib incorporated many modern science concepts into his poetry, I would be mistaken.
Ghalib was a poet, not a scientist. He summed up his human condition in poetry. Ghalib never claimed that he became a scientist because of these few poems.
The reason is very simple, it makes no sense to claim that scientific ideas are presented in the air or in a vague way. Unless you formulate a complete scientific theory with the help of mathematics or with the help of experiments and observations, it has no significance in science. It doesn't matter if you shake your fist, wave your fist in the air and get angry about why the world and science are not accepting your vague ideas.
It is very easy to get his attention after an incident. After Einstein's theory, it is very easy to find this theory from Ghalib's poetry. All you have to do is pull out a few words, exaggerate and change the meaning of the words to prove that Ghalib added Einstein's theory to his poetry. The hearers will rejoice. A term can be used for this. Reverse engineering.
This is how you can draw science pigeons out of poetry or any non-scientific book like an expert magician.
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