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Cuivienen
Jun 15, 2006, 08:52 PM
Verifiable originals, created in my AP Physic C class's free time.


Miss Farad was pretty and sensual
And charged to a reckless potential;
But a rascal named Ohm
Conducted her home.
Her decline was, alas, exponential.


There once was a fellow named Cole
Who ventured too near a black hole.
His dv by dt
Was quite wondrous to see,
But now all that's left is his soul.


The first one only has a perfect rhyme in the American accent, which slurs sensual's final two syllables a bit.

Feel free to post other highly nerdy science or math poetry.

Souron
Jun 16, 2006, 12:01 AM
There was a young lady of Wight
Who traveled faster than light.
She departed one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

--Actual quote from Steven Hawking's A Brief History of Time

Bartleby
Jun 16, 2006, 05:30 AM
^One remarkably similar to that appeared in Adrian Berry's The Iron Sun (1977).

edit: it probably goes all the way back to Einstein's theories of relativity.

Swiss Bezerker
Jun 16, 2006, 07:22 AM
There once was a lady from rides
Who ate sour apples and died
The apples fermented
Inside they lamented
and made cider inside her insides

Truronian
Jun 18, 2006, 03:16 AM
An integer set known as G
Contained numbers from zero to three
But with the operation
of multiplication
a group, this set failed to be!

I Yodaed the last line a little, but I feel t'is not bad for a five minute attempt :D