Quantum Antics

Oh prof, dear prof, I don't mean to superimpose
Though empirical methods work, nobody knows.
Despite quantizing energy, there's no method for thought;
I'm drowning in these waves, though constructively I'm taught:
You can Bohr into my skull with any force that can relate,
The distance never lessens, and the field remains great.
Oh prof, dear prof, I'm not giving any charge;
Scattered is my mind, and these concepts are large,
But why what now interrupts this instruction -
Where's the file, the file, the interference of destruction -
Planck's constant was the answer, Planck's constant resolved,
And with these new equations classical physics dissolved!
Prof, I hear you, but the questions radiate out,
I can't perfectly absorb the proofs that you spout
Photons were emitted, and thus, the difference signified
One moment, hold on, is this the right slide?
And bosons aren't fermions - wait you don't know their type -
What's that music? The prof has a call on skype?
And Einstein used Planck's constant for the photoelectric effect
Which illuminated Planck's equation in retrospect.
Wow, what brilliance defined this great man Planck!
And just as I'm understanding the screen goes blank.
Run, prof, run! Get that powercord fast!
Only 15 minutes left of this class!
And amongst the last of the technological panics,
We still have hopes to master quantum mechanics.

Sept. 13, 2011