Uncertain Relations
by Joel Chace
written in purple
chalk on a
slate patio
little
boxes with
l’s in them
this was in
yellow chalk ‘noble
gas’
l’s in
boxes that just
fit around
them
‘the noble gas shortcut’
isn’t that just
another name for
a king’s
fart?
have you ever
considered the
gender of
atoms
Uncertain Relations
the wave function does
not represent the
density of charge
or matter
the intermediate stages of this
process occur in less than almost a billionth
of a billionth of a
billionth of a second and are
not observable
I can see you old
farts sitting at either
end of that long porch
with your laptops emaling
each other
if an electron and
a positron collide
to pro
duce
a Z is the
Z a virtual
lparticle
and even harder to
figure out in green
chalk looked
like a tipi then
an X another
tipi then a
p then maybe
a pointing arrowhead
underlined after
that a little h that
someone had
crossed and finally
a slash and
a 2
those are my
principles if you
don’t like them I
have others