Science: Mr Tompkins: Gamma-Ray Tunes Poem by Margaret Alice

Then Alice saw an ancient
violin and asked Merlin to
play it – I only play gamma-
ray tunes, Merlin said, it is
a quantum violin and doesn’t
play anything else – I once
had a quantum-cello, for
optical tunes, but it is lost;
then Merlin played “Nucléet
in C Sharp”, a very sad
gamma-ray tune - Alice
thought the music very
strange indeed, with ocean
waves breaking on sandy
shores, interwoven with
high-pitched tunes like
the whistling of an arrow
swishing by – it had a
strange, powerful effect
on her– she closed her
eyes and drifted
off to sleep….

Based on “Mr Tompkins in Paperback”, George Gamow