Physics poetry

[substitute]

1. There is no force, however great
   To pull a wire, however fine
   Into a horizontal line
   That shall be absolutely straight
   
   -- Unknown

2. 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

Comments

Reynold's Law

[mrhinelander.livejournal.com]

Little whorls have tiny whorls
That feed on their velocity.
And those whorls
Have smaller whorls,
And so on to viscosity.

for all my chemists

[firepower.livejournal.com]

Johnny was a good boy,
but Johnny is no more
for what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4

I'll mourn ya 'til I join ya

[feisty-robot.livejournal.com]

A mosquito was heard to exclaim
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of his sorrow
was para-dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane

And the monk was immediately enlightened

[brainflak.livejournal.com]

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."