Awatmath.2254 net.jokes utzoo!decvax!watmath!gamiddleton Sat Apr 24 17:02:04 1982 For All of You People who are Confused by Modern Physics Just in case you missed it in net.misc, The Physicist's Lament or It All Started With Wave-Particle Duality Extremely tiny billiard balls Create a force on every wall Moving much too fast to fall I've looked at light that way But now this doesn't seem to fit When looking through a double slit And shadows blur a little bit With this peculiar ray I've looked at light from both sides now >From speck and wave and still somehow It's light's illusions I recall I really don't know light, at all Moving steady as can be With lots of simultanity A smooth increase in entropy I've looked at time that way But near the speed of light I've found All rates of change start slowing down While antimatter turns things round And goes the other way I've looked at time from both sides now >From where and when and still somehow It's just equations I recall I really don't know time at all Yellow, red, and sometimes blue Just u's and d's will nicely do To give protons and neutrons too I've looked at quarks that way But lambdas now are acting strange They're taking much too long to change For something's lost if something's gained, During their strong decay I've looked at quarks from both sides now, >From up and down, and still somehow It's only hadrons I recall, I really don't know quarks at all -- William Hughes ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.