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.