OPERATIC CONCERN

-- James Ph.Kotsybar

 

Oh, little neutral one of tiny mass,

anomalous traveller from the sun,

you fly through matter that photons can’t pass:

Could this explain the races that you’ve won?

 

Since Einstein, no one believed it could be

that anything could go faster than light --

deemed simply an impossibility,

for Relativity hasto be right.

 

If true, the results are quite terrible,

and give complacent physicists a scare.

In terms of a modern day parable,

you are the tortoise; the photon’s the hare.

 

Though steady, light  (itseems) can’t keep up pace.

Your oscillation is what wins the race.

 

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