The Quantum Cat!

Contrary to the intention of leaving quantum theory in knots,

Came this example, which only illustrated the apparent paradox:

Hats off to the cat of Schrodinger, still dead and alive in its box!

An acrostic written on Schrodinger's birthday.

As it feigned to rain...

As a patch of white, obscured by clouds, I see

The nearly full moon, in this tired retiring city

While I walk below the big flowery tree

I'm chilled to the bones by the cold breeze

Li'l water droplets fall from the flowers and leaves

Upon me; now arms crossed, I shudder and freeze

Looking for an ivory tower, I wander solitarily

As it feigned to rain, the night is in tranquility.

क्रुद्धा कुतोऽसि मातस्त्वम्

क्रुद्धा कुतोऽसि मातस्त्वम्

अशक्याः धारणे वयम् |

किं तु मन्यन्ति युष्माभिः

अहमबाधितेति वा ||

Lunar Eclipse

The Moon, she's so bright

Has taken a fortnight to grow

Thinks she'll last fifteen nights

Before she's again no more.

Oh she's such a delight

Beaming on Earth a mellow glow

But of what's in store tonight

So little does she know.

She receives no light

As the planet, in its flow

Moved to block the Sun's sight

And in shadows she's swallowed

The agony, the pain, the fright

The poor Moon is in, oh

A sudden unimagined plight

The sky adorns her no more.

But soon things are set right

As the Earth went on in its course

She's again full and bright

As shadows cleared, so her sorrows.

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."