Speed Of Light(Einstein) Poem by simon elf

Einstein, Albert, to be precise,

noticed that the speed of light,

speeds at you at the same speed,

even if the object giving off the light

is moving towards you

or away from you.

A space ship with its lights on headed towards us,

or away from us,

The speed of that light coming at us,

is measured the same.

We jump into our own ship, and zoom towards

the light coming at us,

Still, we measure the same speed of light.


But if a softball were thrown at us, if we ran towards the ball,

it would slam harder into our catchers mit.

If we ran away from the softball thrown at us, if we ran fast enough,

we might even run along side the ball, and if we caught it,

the softball would gently fall into our mit.

Out in deep space,

Astronomers, looking through their telescopes,

occasionally find two stars,

circling each other, like a dog chasing its tail.


Spinning around each other,

Like two ice skaters holding hands

One spinning towards us, the other spinning away,

If both tossed softballs at us at the same time, the one coming towards us

would have that extra speed added to the throw.

the skater going away from us, since it was moving backwards

at the time of the throw, the softball would travel to us slower.

One ball would arrive to us first, and the other later.

In the case of spinning stars, if light from the approaching star were

traveling faster, then light beams from both stars leaving each

star at the same time, one would travel faster, and the other slower,

so one image would arrive to our eyes later than the other.

they would seem strangely scrambled,

as if the video tape for one, was a delayed from the other.

But these strange scrambled predictions are never seen,

in all the countless binary stars observed over the years in outer space.

The best explanation for this is einsteins,

which is that the light from either skater,

or spinning star, once it leaves the star,

is traveling to your eyes, at the same speed.