Poetry- Physics Entropy | 28 Aug 2009
Cosmic Gall
At the lowest level so far discovered there are twelve kinds of matter particles: six quarks and six leptons. a lepton that was present in the Big Bang and which has been re-created in particle accelerators another lepton present in the Big Bang is created in the sun and in supernovas, as well as in nuclear reactors and accelerators
Man seeks answers about his home, the Universe, which was created in the Big Bang some 15,000 million years ago. What does it consist of? What are its smallest building blocks and what are their properties? What can they tell us of the history of the Universe and its future?
Cosmic Gall
Neutrinos they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold-shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And, scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
And painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
And pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed – you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
By John Updike
on 28 Aug 2009 at 8:36 pm 1.Michele said …
cute poem by the old man!
I am disappointed at CERN’s collider—all that promise stopped cold; we have to wait until November for it to restart (partial) work…
http://public.web.cern.ch/public/