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He looked into the lens-system and saw
an unimaginably small world grow.
Now does this image in history draw
from van Leeuwenhoek or Galileo?
Through lenses both passed to another realm
in essence, since their broadened reference frame
allowed them visions ( Read more... )

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Physics is a strange, secular mistress
who spends her time with concepts and with laws.
These she embellishes with equations,
and revisions are made (some with distress)
oft’ to include experimental flaws
which lead to whole other realizations.
She makes ( Read more... )

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When fire, water, earth and air were thought
to be the elementals that composed
all matter, folks did not become distraught
at what avant-garde chemists then proposed.

Most understand that the Earth is a sphere
(with only one natural satellite);
no matter ( Read more... )

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From humblest manger beginnings, He
grew a wit to teach the Temple’s teachers,
but in His age, the sad reality:
The world was rife with prophets and preachers.
He was a novelty, a prodigy -
received as well then as such are today -
childlike, unsettling ‘Od’ ( Read more... )

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Below subatomic, the particles
slip through Heisenberg’s uncertainty nets.
They cannot even be called articles;
they’re just mathematical epithets.
Though we may say they have up or down spins
(we may even find them charming or strange),
like angels that ( Read more... )

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Dear friends

Before I proceed to the (becoming usual already) list of posts published at NEQNET during the last two weeks, let me say a couple of words about the blog itself, which is currently the source of  my pride
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Jim Kotsybar has just sent me his another poem, which I liked very much (as usual) and would want to share it with you. And yes, very often such a poem would reflect perfectly the mood of a physicist…

RARIFIED
by James Ph. Kotsybar

The physicist had reached ( Read more... )