How Can It Be So? a Poem

This is the last of my poems inspired by Richard Feynman’s book Six Easy Pieces.  This poem is from Lecture 6: Quantum Behavior

How Can It Be So?

by Kate Rauner

Run the tests over, with protocols tight,

A Feynman diagram, inscribed by Richard P. Feynman. If you can’t read the symbols, they are \gamma_\mu to \gamma_\mu and 1/q^2 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Electrons alone, electrons and light.

You find it’s uncertain, day after day,

If electrons are lumps, or electrons are waves.

They’re both and they’re neither, no one can explain.

This is what happens, the answer’s the same.

It’s thoroughly proven, nature’s this way.

The math is so simple, the words fall away.

Don’t try to fit

The results that you get

To your intuition,

No one’s done it yet.

“Try not to ask,

‘How can it be so?

“No one knows

How it can be so.”