Science as romantic writers

It was brought up in class today the idea of violence and romance and how these two terms, though very different, end up going hand in hand whenever we talk about a sensitive subject such as violence. This was discussed when we were thinking about the Schrodinger’s cat experiment. It was determined that when putting cats in a bunker with some exploding gunpowder that only half of the cats would die. The class then moved on to discuss our most recent book but really resonated with me was the “romanticism” that we bring up when talking about this experiment. Joe Moran brings up in Interdisciplinarity that in science writing that they must be as narrow as possible in order to keep to the subject at hand. While this is true, they often miss that even though they are keeping to the subject at hand, they are missing how “romantic” the experiment is. When discussing what they did, they don’t bring up how many cats were killed in the experiment, but instead continue to talk about their theory. This also is not a new topic for us as English students to ever understand because we see this and think about this all of the time. The same ideas that are brought up in Cane and also the ones brought up in Meridian, but the difference is the way they are presented to the audience. What can be taken away from this is the thought that even when you are looking at sciences and arts as two separate entities, science is still taking a lot of the tools authors have put forth for thousands of years.