One fine day in the month of May,
Pondering over Ampere’s law,
Maxwell found a terrible flaw.
Planning to fight tooth and claw,
He said to Ampere, “What do you say?”
Ampere went into a flare,
And said to Maxwell in a fuming rage,
“What’ll you do, you can’t even compose a page?”
Maxwell said, jumping onto the nearest chair,
“I’m changing it for all I care”
Ampere warned him, “Don’t you dare”.
Gauss heard them fighting, as if for a crown,
And intervened to calm them down.
A few days passed, without any holocaust,
And as another dawn came near, …
“…But don’t you see”, said Ampere,
“…that this result here”,
“…is perfectly clear”,
“…in all respects, my dear”.
“It’s wrong”, said an adamant Maxwell,
“… even a child can tell”.
“Well, if that’s the case”,
“…I won’t back out of the race”,
And Ampere said with all his might,
“My dear Gauss, tell us who is right?”
As anxious heads turned to face Gauss,
He smiled and said, “Don’t forget here, I’m the boss”;
And deciding to settle the issue, once and for all,
He sent someone to fetch a ball.
Throwing the ball high into the air,
He said to them, “You’ve gotta catch that ball there”
“… whoever’s got a better sight”,
“…will be the one who is right”.
p.s. This was written during Engineering on the eve of the semester III exams. I had decided that I’d had enough of these laws and wrote a satirical poem on the subject :-))
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