How Can Physics Be Expressed Through Poetry?

[magiladd]

Hello! I would love to know if any of you have some nice physics poetry. I often think in terms of graphs, and a lot of my metaphors relate to superposition and the uncertainty principle, but I always have a difficult time expressing that in poems. I was wondering if anyone had discovered how to do that yet? Or creative ways to express poems in a science-y way? I love writing poetry and would love to do it in a way that makes more sense to me- with physics, lol.

Would love any ideas or poet recs! Thank you!

 

[Hamiltonian]

David Morin is famous for his physics limericks.
https://www.physics.harvard.edu/undergrad/limericks

 

[PeroK]

Hello! I would love to know if any of you have some nice physics poetry. I often think in terms of graphs, and a lot of my metaphors relate to superposition and the uncertainty principle, but I always have a difficult time expressing that in poems. I was wondering if anyone had discovered how to do that yet? Or creative ways to express poems in a science-y way? I love writing poetry and would love to do it in a way that makes more sense to me- with physics, lol.

Would love any ideas or poet recs! Thank you!

I've posted a few Haiku's over the years.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/exploring-the-aether.1008435/

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...neralised-momentum.998603/page-2#post-6445943

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/how-to-interpret-integration-by-parts.998115/#post-6440057

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/contest-physics-haiku.877520/

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...closedness-of-the-cosmos.997137/#post-6429092

 

[mjc123]

Once, long ago, on a forum I belonged to, someone said he was trying to come up with a version of "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" to give his daughter a more scientific understanding of stars. He came up with something like:

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Are you just a ball of gas
With an ever-changing mass?

Which prompted me to produce the following:

Twinkle, twinkle, ball of gas,
Your fate depends upon your mass.
What will be your final role -
White dwarf, pulsar or black hole?

 

[Arjan82]

One that is often repeated in Fluid Mechanics' turbulence lectures:

“Big whirls have little whirls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity.”

― Lewis Fry Richardson

 

[PeroK]

This was a favourite of my high-school chemistry teacher:

Poor Joe Soap,
He is no more.
For what he thought was $H_2\ O$
Was $H_2 \ SO_4$

 

[mjc123]

May his rest be long and placid -
He added water to the acid!
This young chap did what he oughtta;
He added acid to the water.