Special Relativity

Absurd and unreal, reality had appeared

"Would we ever decipher?" they had feared

Until came this young German clerk, with a weird

Theory that had the then world-view jeered.

Time takes longer, he said, lengths become shorter

And mass grows heavier, as things move faster

Thus his theory, which hardly anyone could master

Also predicted that energy is but matter.

Rejecting the notion of absolute spacetime

Postulating the constancy of "c," was Einstein's

Special theory of relativity; it still shines

For it was the sign of birth of modern science.

On the occasion of Albert Einstein's 134th birthday, here's my tribute to the arguably the greatest theoretical physicist and his brain child, the special theory of relativity. In my haste to finish the poem today, I was unable to make it an acrostic.