From the Wall Street Journal: "Four recently discovered substances are joining the periodic table of the elements, filling in key blank spots in chemistry’s official compendium of the basic building blocks of the universe."
You can mess with quarks or moon beams, cast new light on Betty Grable,
but cease your machinations of the periodic table!
"New super heavy elements" -- forsooth, is this a gag?
Adding to the chart, sir, is no job for light weight wag!
The dust of many chalkboards hallows that great mystery ;
to memorize its contents was the Holy Grail to me.
These vagabondish isotopes you wish to glorify
with permanence are hardly worth the droppings of a fly.
Add a new dimension, if you like, or mutate gene --
but the periodic table must remain the same, pristine!
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