Our Standard Model
houses seventeen beasts in
its particle zoo.Seventeen quantum
particles like syllables,
defining thought’s fields.In this way, haiku
by James Ph. Kotsybar
mirrors Nature’s elements
at her most basic.
Can it be merely coincidental that the number of sub-atomic particles is equal to the number of syllables in a haiku? Of course, but it’s still a fun speculation to entertain.
Further reading:
‘Physicists just discovered two new subatomic particles. Here’s why that matters’, 2014, Stromberg, J., Vox, available: https://www.vox.com/2014/11/26/7280417/higgs-boson-LHC
‘Subatomic particles’, Wikipedia, available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subatomic_particle
Author bio:
James Ph. Kotsybar is the first, living poet whose work has reached another planet, chosen for the honor by the NASA MAVEN team. Invited to read at the EuroScience Open Forum – Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science event – in Toulouse, France, attended by the Troubadours (Europe’s oldest literary institution), who gave him a standing, return invitation for his science poetry presentation. Find out more about him and his book ‘Bard of Mars’ here.