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There is no force, however great
To pull a wire, however fine
Into a horizontal line
That shall be absolutely straight— Unknown
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Stone walls do not a prism make
They’re better made of glass
If you had studied Science
You would not be such an ass— My father
Physics poetry
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Reynold’s Law
Little whorls have tiny whorls
That feed on their velocity.
And those whorls
Have smaller whorls,
And so on to viscosity.
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for all my chemists
Johnny was a good boy,
but Johnny is no more
for what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4
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I’ll mourn ya ’til I join ya
A mosquito was heard to exclaim
“A chemist has poisoned my brain!”
The cause of his sorrow
was para-dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane
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And the monk was immediately enlightened
I’ve discovered over the years that the ‘prism’ one can be lobbed at someone’s brain like a Zen koan with the pin removed and leave them dazed enough to allow me to make my escape. After which I always think “thanks, Dr. H.”
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