63. A little break for a poetry :-)

I was contacted by James Kotsybar, who presented me with several pieces of poetry I have no idea why he sent them to me, but they were fun to read – although not Shakespeare, but I liked them (in which respect – that I will not disclose). James also kindly agreed to allow me to publish them on this blog. Let me know what you think…

ENTROPIC HOPE
— James Ph. Kotsybar

Dr. Smart, with sweeping dioramics,
summarized theory accepted today:
“The first few laws of thermodynamics:
You can’t win, break even or get away.

“No matter speed of acceleration,
the universe runs down since the Big Bang.
The fate of order is dissipation.
The spring, once sprung, can’t be re-sprung. It sprang.

“A system needs energy to survive
or it’s unable to do work, of course.
On galactic scales or like us, alive,
complexity is the result of force.

“And though the second law says we can’t win,
it’s only ‘law’ to a statistician.”

STRINGS ATTACHED
— James Ph. Kotsybar

Physicists foresee a utopia
(once they squint through micro-myopia)
where all of the forces of nature should
become unified and be understood.
Even in science, letting go is hard,
and notions are the hardest to divorce,
but, to reach there, they’ll have to discard
their classical point-particles of force.

While Newton works large-scale, his physics fail,
and even Einstein’s theories can’t subsist,
when applied to the sub-atomic scale.
The answers they produce just can’t exist.

Particle physics, in quantum foam, sank,
when its researchers walked the length of Planck.