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Monday, May 26, 2008

Defining Gravity?

So I was thinking.. that original conversation between Isaac Newton and his assistant Whiston... just after he got hit on the head... may have gone just a little bit...like this?

NEWTON:
Something has changed within me something is not the same
An apple hit my head and now I’m going quite insane
Too late for second-guessing too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts close my eyes and leap

It's time to try Defining gravity
I think I'll try Defining gravity
First: it can pull fruit down...

WHISTON Can't I make you understand, you're having delusions of grandeur...?

NEWTON
Lets try creating limits on how an object falls
Some things I cannot change and so I’ll make physical laws
Too long I've been afraid of falling objects on my head
But now I see that they’ve been helping me instead..

It’s time to try Defining gravity
Kiss me goodbye I'm defining gravity
Second rule: it pulls the moon

Whiston, come with me. Think of what we could do - together.
We’re limited By gravity we're limited
But we can still be the greatest team there's ever been, (in phyics),
Laws the way we planned 'em

WHISTON
If we work in tandem

BOTH
There's no force we cannot name!
Just you and I Defining gravity with you and I Defining gravity

NEWTON
They'll never prove us wrong... Well? Are you coming?

WHISTON
I hope you're happy Now that you're choosing this...

NEWTON
You too - I hope it brings you bliss

BOTH
I really hope you get it And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end I hope you're happy, my friend...

NEWTON
So if you care to find me I’ll be just down the hall
As an apple showed me lately - Gravity will teach a thing to fall
And if I'm working solo I’ll get all royalties
The whole world needs me To get a physics degree…..
Yes! Because I Am defining gravity!
I'm going to try Defining gravity!
And soon my laws will have renown
And nobody in all of physics
No Scientist that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!