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Home   |   Publications   |   APS News   |   Special Features   |   Physics Limericks   |   Daniel Koon

Daniel Koon

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PHYSIX LIMERIX:
To Michelson and E. W. Morley
ther theory explained rather poorly
Why their first beam of light
Reached their eyepiece all right,
But the next one arrived just as early.

That patent clerk -- Al What's-his-name --
Told us energy and mass are the same.
To make matters worse,
He said (not in verse)
That there is no preferred reference frame.


Fermi called the small bugger neutrino
After maybe a little much vino.
I hate to be crass,
But whatever its mass,
It's still way too small to be seen-o.

Grad student Edwin H. Hall,
So excited he might bounce off the wall,
Said, "this brand new effect
Causes charge to deflect,
Given current and B-field -- that's all."
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