Poetry on Quantum physics
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ASHISH KUMAR
Electrons are highly mysterious
this topic indeed is quite serious
It’s starting to feel so imperious
I think I’m becoming delirious....
I wanted to finally grasp
The quantum mechanics at last...
I stayed up for half the night reading
and by morning I felt like retreating....
I hardly could see how this thing could be
a concept I could comprehend.
It’s as if I’d come to the point I was numb
all the way to my mind’s bitter end...
After all those hours of thinking
Just as I felt I was sinking
Then I started thinking
Our hearts were once close two nucleons held tight
By a force that was strong and a love that burned bright....
But that force became weaker as the days faded ‘way
And with it our bond began to decay....
I’ve realize that opposite don’t always attract
(Otherwise, the atom would be more compact)
And opposites we were our differences great
Continuing this way we’d annihilate....
In truth I’ve quite had it with your duality
Your warm disposition cold mentality....
We must be entangled - what else can explain
How though we r distant you still cause me pain?
An electron looks like a particle
and it also acts like a wave
and once I began to accept this
that electron began to behave...
This is called complementarity
when a concept that seems a disparity
is the very best way we can show
how a set of phenomena go...
We’ve exchanged mediators but our half-lives were short
All data suggests we should promptly abort
Our collision is over and signatures thereof
Have vanished leaving us not a quantum of love...
More than eighty years ago
Werner Heisenberg managed to show
probability and uncertainty
both exist we must agree...
The future’s unpredictable
no matter how well we see....
Dear Heisenberg embraced this
the beauty of uncertainty....
You can either know where the electron is
or where the electron is going
but you can’t know both at the very same time
Cause the measuring affects what you’re knowing..
it’s called complementarity
when a concept that seems a disparity
is the very best way we can show
how a set of phenomena go...
The very act of observing
changes an electron’s location.
The ideas that all came together
for Heisenberg to have his zinger
were inspired by studies before
that came from Niels Bohr and Schrödinger...
And, indeed Schrödinger and Bohr
were inspired by who came before
like Pascal and Coulomb and Newton
And Maxwell and Einstein and more...
And remember your imagination
is a voice inside that can help you
to understand quantum mechanics
and so many more things about you...
The wilder the concept the more fun it is
I feel scientifically brave
And thanks to dear Heisenberg’s aha we know
an electron is both a particle and a wave