Recover

Roads, they sure are rough

Me, I am equal and tough.

Incapable, is my body like this

Indomitable, yet, my spirit is.

'nd invincible, is my strength of will

Unrelenting, I shall continue to till.

Until I recover, until I surely heal.

An acrostic describing my ongoing ACL reconstruction rehab.

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.

Quantum Reality

Quite bewildering, but nature just has to be

Quantized inherently, lest there be UV catastrophe

States of multiple reality, a consequence of uncertainty

Principle of complementarity, illustrating the duality

A testimony, we have, for this world of potentiality,
In the alive and dead Schrodinger's cat, a singularity!

This acrostic is a result of the inspiration that I found after reading George Gamow's "Great Scientists from Galileo to Einstein" and Heisenberg's "Physics and Philosophy."

Lightning

Rushing charges, from one cloud to another

A bolt of lightning, followed by roaring thunder

Ionizing nitrogen, which pours with rain, together

Nourishing plants, helping the cycle of life prosper.

(In-)Significance?

Up you stare, at the boundless starry night

Insignificance, you will see, of man's size

Excited electrons, in your eyes, giving sight

Caused by light, that's millions old tonight.

Deep you look, at this electron slight

Significance, you will see, of man's size

Particle or wave? Always a surprise

Nature's imagination never fails to delight.

Here you can experience the (in-)significance yourself: http://htwins.net/scale2/

किं भो रङ्ग शयानोऽसि

किं भो रङ्ग शयानोऽसि

कावेरीहृदये वसन् |

कुतस्ते जात आयासः

भूभारहरणेन वा ||

ऎषः श्लोकः अपि अनुष्तुप्छन्दसि वर्तते | ऎषः श्रीरङ्गक्षेत्रस्य तत् क्षेत्रॆ स्थितस्य रङ्गनाथस्य च वर्णनम् |

The Captain

Cast in turmoil, thrown about in the fiery sea

Was she sinking? The crew looked for lifeboats to flee

Hopeful one sailor, that the shore his vessel shall see

'O but the skipper! Where, in this time of need, be he?'

Screaming he scoured; an answer though, wasn't to be

But guided by his leader's deeds, the course he conceived

Now standing at the helm, the captain he shall be.