The sun shines as I write this. Judy has gone down to have breakfast to say farewell to the paper mill that is closing for good. I’m on my eat-only-one-meal-a-day diet and I never eat anything until five o’clock wherewith I’ll take the car for a drive and have something to eat down town with Judy today. She promised me a steak sandwich. I haven’t had one in years. Make no mistake, I drink plenty of fluid - at least one litre of warm boiled water with lemons from our tree. I also drink broth, the kind you make from cubes. I was lucky enough to have one of my more modern sonnets used in Launceston for its festival, where, with other poets, a wall was painted using the poems as an inspiration. The word camouflage. It was partly about the Schrödinger’s-equation cat conundrum about the quantum-atom decay where the cat inside a box with a radioactively decaying atom can trigger a poison vial. Has the atom decayed? Is the cat in the box alive or dead? No one knows. Two states can be induced at once.
I’ve decided to publish Scientific Sonnets with photographs I took on the rocky-shale beach near Wynyard. The poems will be about scientific quantum mysteries.
Wave-Particle Duality
What is light’s substance, asked the Greek, Euclid?
Corpuscles, extrapolated Newton;
Then Young shone light through a double slit
Where it split as wave from an electron gun.
In quantum, light is particle and wave,
Where an electron beam must then diffract
Itself as to detect and then to save
De Broglie’s duality-attract.
Markus Arndt saw this as constructed tricks,
Where all this light from your twin eyes is spent
To change into a split of atoms’ mix.
There, I diffract into your sweet event.
I am the interference from your eyes,
Where wave-diffraction of our love survives.
© Joe Lake
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