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Charm School

CHARM SCHOOL They found two heavy charmed quarks, the other one, straight up for larks. One up and two splendidly rotund, you ain't heavy, you're a baryon. A poised new baryon in inner space, you’ll define and describe your place. What flavor is there for today, in your fleeting quick decay. Collided winks in mass array, a subatomic burst display. A glimpse of lithesome spinning up, with your two roly-poly pups. On binary cycle mass to mass, heavy bits just moving past. In pas de deux the lithesome one, sails around the chunky ton. Your four times heavier than most, a source of energy is not your boast. But may the Strong Force be with thee, as we foretell in Q C D. We just hate what you’ve been named, It’s greek to us and so untamed. Called: ka-sigh-see-see-plus-plus, I dub thee, Hippo-part-icus. -Edlynn Nau Written: October 7, 2017 ©April 8, 2019 This was after this new unusual particle was discovered in July of 2017 and I’m just getting around to finishing it. Dedicated to the team of the LHCb experiment.

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Paul Callus

Date: 4/13/2019 4:36:00 PM

As a poem it was a delight to read, Edlynn, although I was fearing getting stumped in anything dealing with conservation of energy! ~ Regards // paul

Edlynn Nau
Date: 4/13/2019 4:49:00 PM

As you can see, no waves AND particles, no superpositions nor the Heisenberg principle. I just like to introduce new particles that are amazing without frightening anyone off. I just want people to be curiouser and curiouser as I am. Excited to see how Astronomy and Subatomics will finally be wedded and hope I’m still alive when they figure it all out. Sincerely, thank you for reading! I tried not to be too pedantic and hope the spirit of play is felt. That you learned something too is just a plus. I sent it to a physics friend and it met with no reply. Probably too shallow for him. Hard to be a conduit between poetry and particles. I don’t do this too often. I do dedicate poems to new findings but have nothing in mind for the proof of black holes. I just do this occasionally... (and the people celebrated her brevity on the subject). Lol

Robert Lindley

Date: 4/13/2019 3:13:00 PM

A very charming piece my great friend. I am by no means a great scientific mind, but poetry I know well and this is a clever and very creative piece done in great style... A fav..

Edlynn Nau
Date: 4/13/2019 4:02:00 PM

Thank you so much Robert. Particle physics gave us the World Wide Web, it gave us devices, and the algorithm for WiFi by the Australians. It gave us PET and MRI scans! So Im always trying to be a conduit that might make people a tad more interested in the subatomic world. I’m in doubt people will read but those that do will learn something and my hope is that we all see their value. Thank you for being so kind to give this a read!