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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Richard Feynman's Woodpecker</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under a cloudy sky<br>A hammering woodpecker<br>Drilled and drummed<br>On a tree branch <br>With her chisel-like bill tip.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a physicist stepped out<br>Of his house into the haze<br>Billowing over the street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He scratched his bald head<br>And brooded and pondered<br>Contemplated and thought<br>Of the opaque secret of light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, he said, nowadays<br>Of course we already know<br>That light can be<br> Both a particle and a wave, <br> A stream of arcane photons <br>Or a recondite river of rays: <br>Electromagnetic radiation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I still <br>Do not understand it, <br>He muttered, <br>For this whole damned thing <br>Remains elusive and mysterious.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The problem is, he said, <br>That while sound waves<br>Propagate through the air<br>And surface waves in lakes<br>Or oceans travel in water, <br>Light can traverse through <br>Intergalactic nothing<br>Moving in straight lines<br>In the vacuum<br>Of empty space<br>Without a medium<br>As electromagnetic waves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, how does this<br>Silly light do it? <br>How can it propagate<br>Without a medium? <br>And how does it know<br>Which way is straight? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And why is it a constant? <br>He asked, and nothing <br>Can travel faster<br>Than the speed of light, <br>That is to say almost<br>300,000 km per second.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he suddenly <br>Remembered that once <br>Richard Feynman said: <br>Physicists do not<br>Really understand physics, <br>They just get used to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so the physicist just kept<br>Wondering and scratching <br>His bald head<br>Under a cloudy sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A dense gray mist<br>Billowed then over the street<br>And a hammering woodpecker <br>Drilled and drummed<br>On a tree branch <br>With her chisel-like bill tip.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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A hammering woodpecker
Drilled and drummed
On a tree branch 
With her chisel-like bill tip.

Then a physicist stepped out
Of his house into the haze
Billowing over the street.

He scratched his bald head
And brooded and pondered..."></div>
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