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Element Scikus
A couple of elemental science-inspired haikus.
Elementary
Proton, electron Probabilistic dancers Define elements
We think of protons and electrons arranged like miniature solar systems of wire and Styrofoam balls, circling endlessly in our childhood science projects. But at the atomic scale, it is probability, not graceful arcs and loops, which define how electrons move about their suns made of protons and neutrons. More like how a moth would appear flitting about a flickering light, a stroboscopic existence with no path through space between each flashing appearance. Protons, neutrons, and electrons behave as both particles and waves, bending our minds and collectively giving us the illusion of a solid and deterministic world. That probabilistic dance between these sub-atomic partners is the basis for all the elements that build our universe.
Hydrogen
One and one make one Condensing from the Big Bang Our World’s pioneer
One proton and one electron make one hydrogen—the first element to condense out of the fiery subatomic blast following the Big Bang. Hydrogen remains the predominant element making up our universe. The biggest bodies in our solar system, the sun, and the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn are mostly hydrogen. The first suns to ignite from the hot haze of hydrogen filling our earliest universe were immense, massive stars hundreds of times larger than our sun. By force of gravity, these massive stars forged heavier elements from hydrogen, and their supernova explosions seeded the universe with our first elements bigger than helium. Eventually, a range of stars evolved, the smaller ones dying in less spectacular ways than the short-lived massive supernova stars. But all contributed the elemental products of their stellar forges, from these elements, the stardust that Carl Sagan spoke of, that we and our world are made.
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