Poetry &Science Entropy | 25 Jan 2009
E = MC2
E=Mc2 is arguably most referred, used, abused and least understood scientific equation. The equation’s influence, on both scientific and sociological fronts, is indeed hard to separate from Einstein’s influence as a whole which, like E = mc2-derived heat from the sun, shows no sign of diminishing.
Recite this charming poem by Morris Bishop.
Einstein's brainstorms and the papers that resulted from them have all the beauty and imagination of a Monet painting.
E = MC2
What was our trust, we trust not,
What was our faith, we doubt;
Whether we must or not
We may debate about.
The soul, perhaps, is a gust of gas
And wrong is a form of right-
But we know that Energy equals Mass
By the Square of the Speed of Light.
What we have known, we know not,
What we have proved, abjure.
Life is a tangled bowknot,
But one thing still is sure.
Come, little lad; come, little lass,
Your docile creed recite:
“We know that Energy equals Mass
By the Square of the Speed of Light.”