PhysicsLimericks

I'm a physicist. I like writing Limericks.

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#limericksunday

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Locking cats in a box is not crime,
but a quantum-mechanical rhyme:
Schrödinger's cat -
alive or now dead,
it's both - at the very same time.

#QuantumMechanics #SchroedingersCat #Physics #Limerick #LimerickRhyme

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At night stars shine bright in the sky
albeit none of them is nearby,
and their light's travelled far -
even from the next star
more than four years - to reach our eye.

#stars #proximacentauri #physics #light #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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This series starts one, one, then two.
What's next? I will give you a clue:
Fibonacci's the name
so please play my game,
and name the next terms - just a few.

#Fibonacci #FibonacciSequence #MathPoetry #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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Of course - the next term is three.
To find further terms it is key
to add the last two.
I'm sure that you knew,
next's five, eight, thirteen. You'll agree!

#Fibonacci #FibonacciSequence #MathPoetry #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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This series starts one, one, then two.
What's next? I will give you a clue:
Fibonacci's the name
so please play my game,
and name the next terms - just a few.

#Fibonacci #FibonacciSequence #MathPoetry #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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With air friction this changes though -
quite noticeably: If you throw
both feather and stone
then it can be shown:
The feather is light and hence slow.

#physics #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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Two objects fall from the same height.
You may think: the one that is light
falls slower - that's wrong.
It takes equally long
independent of mass - this is right.

#physics #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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the earth's ecliptic
causes the changing seasons
every year anew

#HaikuSaturday #haiku #Ecliptic #Earth

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@PhysInHistory https://t.co/EF8CCCI8vI

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Locking cats in a box is not crime,
but a quantum-mechanical rhyme:
Schrödinger's cat -
alive or now dead,
it's both - at the very same time.

#QuantumMechanics #SchroedingersCat #Physics #Limerick #LimerickRhyme

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Square Numbers 2/2

The next one that come's sixtyfour.
Let's go on because there are some more:
Eightyone, also then -
to complete the first ten -
there's onehundret we should not ignore.

#SquareNumber #MathPoetry #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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@APSphysics https://t.co/EF8CCCI8vI

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Locking cats in a box is not crime,
but a quantum-mechanical rhyme:
Schrödinger's cat -
alive or now dead,
it's both - at the very same time.

#QuantumMechanics #SchroedingersCat #Physics #Limerick #LimerickRhyme

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@curiosityonx https://t.co/5FGDf7yEd4

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One planet's especially nice.
The sixth one - and to be precise -
from the sun. Saturn's rings
amongst other things
are made mostly of rock and ice.

#planets #solarsystem #Saturn #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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Square Numbers 1/2

Such squares I am sure you have seen:
They're one, four and nine, and sixteen.
What's next? Thirtysix?
Fourtynine? In this mix
I forgot twentyfive inbetween.

#SquareNumber #MathPoetry #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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Eight planets surround our star,
and seven of those planets are
- as far as we know -
without life, and though
the earth's the most pleasant by far.

#planets #solarsystem #astronomy #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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Goldbach Conjecture

All numbers except - of course - two,
that are even - and this is not new -
are the sum of two primes.
It's - put here in rhymes -
not proven, but possibly true.

#primenumbers #mathematics #MathPoetry #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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May the force that is strong be confining
for gluons and quarks. By defining
they're red, green and blue:
to white objects through
the strong force these quarks are combining.

#MayThe4th #physics #quarks #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme

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Peter Higgs (1929-2024) https://t.co/H0d9OMfaAA

This boson is named after Higgs,
What can it do? What are its tricks?
Gives particles mass,
is one of the class:
elementary-particle bricks.

#Higgs #PeterHiggs #Higgsboson #physics #StandardModel #LimerickSunday

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The first and in-depth definition
of uranium's nuclear fission:
Though this knowledge she gained
Lise Meitner remained
without nobel-prize recognition.

#LiseMeitner #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 #WomeninScience #WomenInSTEM #LimerickSunday

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@NobelPrize https://t.co/wERULnB8Vw

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A woman - Marie was her name -
has reached as a scientist fame.
Outstandingly clever,
the first person ever
with two Nobel prizes to claim.

#MarieCurie #InternationalWomensDay2023 #InternationalWomensDay #WomeninScience #WomenInSTEM #LimerickRhyme

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The Nobelprize given this year
in physics is for pioneer-
ing work on AI -
that computers apply
for learning - at knowledge's frontier.

#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #AI #physics #nobelprize #LimerickSunday #limericks #LimerickRhyme