Scant seconds old
the Schrödinger cat is
out of the bag and little c
squared a wist of its
flash-in-pan self
CERN lurked about
the inert world, goading
neutrinos to make for the gate
bidding the naysayers:
watch us and whirl!
Einstein meanwhile
may roll in his grave, if
rolling is what his inertia has
been. His theory rings
true: time hearkens
back to the abacus
counting the points of his
theory as true: that time heark-
ens back to … well, let
that and Al rest.
The point is what’s
new, what never once
was, what forces us lazies to
look high and low &
see but a blur,
write to the world,
symposium up to the
wonderful spectra, the ‘we
are such stuff’—the
gifts of our God.
Made some revisions--bound to happen with the 'Sylvia Plath (churn 'em out) method'. The main one is, obviously, the title: if I had been thinking of the new role of neutrinos, why not smash them together?
ReplyDeleteAnd here is where we need Eric as contributor/editor/resident scientist: I'm a limited swimmer in the middle of the ocean here. One of my students smugly assessed, "you need to know the difference between the theoretical mass vs evident momentum of neutrinos." Indeed, I must. But, as Plath would have it, I'll put in my quotidian place-holder and wait on advice.
So, Eric (and Josef, who has signed into an accelerated physics program at his school), as the last stanza exhorts, SYMPOSIUM UP!