Uncertainty

All is quantum and we cannot peek

Through the veil of uncertainty through which we seek

To know what exists when we do not.

So does God roll a dice or is there a plot?

For it seems that we humans need existence to make sense.

But as for an opinion, I’ll sit on the fence.

Uncertainty 2, or is it 3?

Is Heisenberg uncertainty a reality of sorts, or just a wrong turn in our mathematical thoughts?

The uncertainty was derived from the mathematics you know.

And with many experiments we have proven it so.

But it only applies to conjugate pairs, so some things ARE certain.

A strange state of affairs.

The Quantum Cat

Erwin Schrodinger had a cat.

That he put in a box and that was that.

In the box was some gas triggered by alpha decay.

And if the trigger went off then the cat past away.

But Erwin knew that the cat’s situation

Was just a case of quantum superposition.

So whilst in the box not being observed

It was neither dead or alive and that’s quite absurd

Wave-icle

Oh tiny quanta, a particle sublime.

But then look again, and you’re a wave sometimes

Can’t you decide what you want to be?

In superposition if you want, or to collapse may be.

But when bonded to your friends decoherence plays a part

And between particle and wave you no longer dart.

String Along

In physics a string is a peculiar thing

With neither width nor depth to its name.

But strings are not loose, and they have a use

Especially when attached to the brane.

For then they matter, because they become matter

And that’s something that I cannot explain

But the Brane’s part of the Bulk, and I’m starting to sulk

“This means nothing to me”, I exclaim.

Entangled

Consider two particles of states A and B

And if B becomes A then A becomes B

What’s amazing is this happens simultaneously

And that’s all there is to entanglement you see.

Black Hole

I feel sorry for a star shining brightly in space

For if its mass is too large, a nasty future it will face.

As its fuel is spent it has less outward force

And gravity contracts it to a singularity of course.

So with no dimensions to speak of and an infinite mass

And an event horizon through which light cannot pass

Our star disappears as physics take its toll

And low and behold it’s become a black hole.