Tag: Mass

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Neutrinos by John Hawkhead

neutrino mass for the fleetingly here

by John Hawkhead

Neutrinos are fundamental particles and are members of the same group as the electron (leptons). Neutrinos have very little mass, no charge, and travel through the Earth in milliseconds.

Some Christian religions hold a ‘mass’ for the deceased to celebrate a life. So, this monoku poem links the short time on Earth for neutrinos with our fleeting time on Earth.

Further reading:

‘Neutrino’, Wikipedia article, available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino

Author bio:

John Hawkhead (@haikuhawk.bsky.social) has been writing haiku and illustrating for over 25 years. His work has been published all over the world and he has won a number of haiku competitions. John’s books of haiku and senryu, ‘Small Shadows’ and ‘Bone Moon’, are now available from Alba Publishing (http://www.albapublishing.com/).

Read more of John’s sciku here!

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Attraction by Jonathan Aylett

if an object’s mass
determines its gravity
explain butterflies

by Jonathan Aylett

An object’s mass is directly proportional to the gravitational force it generates, but in this haiku I am turning this on its head and asking why am I so drawn to something as light as a butterfly? The answer is obvious really (they are beautiful).

Further reading:

‘Mass, weight and gravitational field strength’, BBC Bitesize article, available: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zsqscj6/revision/1

‘Newton’s law of universal gravitation’, Wikipedia article, available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_law_of_universal_gravitation

Author bio:

Jonathan has been writing and publishing poetry for several years. His work has featured in journals dedicated to haiku, and broader literary journals, and won competitions across both disciplines. His collection ‘Goldfish’ – a mix of haiku and long form poetry, will be published by Stairwell books in spring 2024. You can follow Jonathan on Instagram here: @jonathanaylettpoetry 

Read other sciku by Jonathan here: ‘Light’, ‘String Theory’, ‘Moss’, and ‘Dusty Shoulders’.

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Renegade liquid

Renegade liquid –

negative mass pushing back

breaking second law.

 

One of the fundamental aspects of Newton’s second law states is that when an object has a force applied to it, it moves in the same direction as the net force. Khamehchi et al (2017) created a liquid of negative effective mass (a Bose-Einstein condensate) that breaks this principle: when it is pushed it accelerates towards the pusher.

Original research: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.155301