Jayant Narlikar (1938) Indian physicist
When he saw this strange phenomenon while he was travelling from London to Chicago on December 14, 1963, by a jet plane.
When Prof Jayant Narlikar saw the sun rise in the west
“I sat drinking and did not notice the dusk,
Till falling petals filled the folds of my dress.”
"Self-Abandonment" ( 自遣 http://www.chinese-poems.com/lb14t.html), as translated by Arthur Waley (1919)
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