– after Davisson and Germer 1927.
Kick a poem through a grate like this | |
Surely each word must pass through one slot or the other, yet the resulting distribution shows that words also behave
a…aa…as…asi…if…the…they…ww…wwer…were…waaves….aves…es…s
Image: Delegates to the Solvay Conference on electrons and photons, Brussels, 1927 Wikimedia commons (no poets and only one woman [Marie Curie] in attendance). This is the first of four quantum quadrilles. And here’s Frank Sinatra also thinking about waves and particles. Linked to dverse – the poets’ pub where De is hosting and asks us to use the word ‘kick’
Peter Frankis writes 
Fantastic Peter! Love it! Though their behaviour is tied to the presence or otherwise of the observer… just as this poem would be something else without the reader! 🙂
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Ahahaha! Nice!!! If anyone is for Quantum Quadrilles, its me! Let the uncertainty prevail…
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You clever boots…
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Brilliant!
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This is fantastic… I might have to take you up on the challenge having written my thesis once on quantum mechanics… and to bring forth the wave-particle dualism of words is a great idea.
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Thanks Bjorn – I’m thinking about another on entanglement and I’ve posted one on superposition and cat poems. Quantum seems as mysterious and counterintuitive as poetry.
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Peter, this is simply divine. SUCH a creative take on the prompt, and the word. WONDERFUL.
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Exceptionally clever!
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A quantum leap of cleverness in these lines
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Thanks Laura –
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Wonderfully clever Peter, I love the behaviour of words! ;o)
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This is why I joined dVerse…… for moments like this. Love it!
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Thanks Vivian.
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You’re welcome!
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So cool.
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Oh yeah. Diggin’ the Sinatra.
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Thanks Maggie – he goes so low doesn’t he? 🙂
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I hadn’t thought of experimenting with words through a double slit before.
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It’s pretty uncertain 🙂
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Like waves…very clever formatting ~
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Thanks Grace – (it looks pretty ordinary on the WordPress reader though).
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Peter, enjoyable blend of science and art (in my opinion one that is amazing). Science has come so far in the almost-50 years since I got my undergrad degree. Love the play with the extended word. Brilliant.
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Brilliant! This brought back plenty sweet memory of my uni’s lab. Seeing this *particular* *wave* of responses, I wonder how many physicists we actually have in dVerse.
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Indeed, maybe dverse needs a maths night 🤓
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I love the idea of quantum quadrilles, Peter, and this one is brilliant. You’ve kicked physics’ ass!
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Quantum Quadrilles….basically brilliant!
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Nice! This got me thinking about different ways of perception, like the difference between the appearance of words on a page and the ways (waves?) one might read them aloud.
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Very clever, Peter!
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Oh my! This is brilliant, Peter. I love poems that play with science, even though I know/understand so little about it. Word particles and waves? That is wonderful!
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Glad you liked it. Thanks
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