SteelyKid, like most toddlers, knows a few songs, and likes to sing them over and over. Her repertoire is limited to “ABCDEFG” (the alphabet song, but that’s how she requests it), “Twinkle, Twinkle,” “Some man” (“This Old Man,” which I only figured out this weekend), and “Round and Round” (“The Wheels on the Bus”). I get a little bored with the repetition, and so tend to make up my own verses, which get sideways looks from her, followed by telling Kate “Daddy’s silly!”<\/p>\n
I’ve been posting a lot of these on Twitter over the past several days (@orzelc<\/a>), but for posterity, a few physics-related verses (some of which haven’t made it to Twitter):<\/p>\n The wheels on the bus go round and round, Heisenberg’s on the bus, or maybe not, Schrödinger’s cat on the bus is alive and dead, Einstein on the bus says “Don’t play dice,” The Feynman on the bus plays bongo drums, Gell-Mann on the bus says “Eightfold Path,” Dirac on the bus says ” ,” <\/p>\n The baryons on the bus say “Quark quark quark,” The fermions on the bus have spin-1\/2, All the bosons on the bus are in one state, The neutrinos on the bus have almost no mass, The speed of the bus is less than c<\/i>, SteelyKid, like most toddlers, knows a few songs, and likes to sing them over and over. Her repertoire is limited to “ABCDEFG” (the alphabet song, but that’s how she requests it), “Twinkle, Twinkle,” “Some man” (“This Old Man,” which I only figured out this weekend), and “Round and Round” (“The Wheels on the Bus”). I… Continue reading The Physics Bus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[367,368,554,292,555,556,92,93,171,557,227,525,558],"class_list":["post-5104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-silliness","tag-dirac","tag-feynman","tag-gell-mann","tag-heisenberg","tag-kid-stuff","tag-particles","tag-physics-2","tag-quantum","tag-relativity-2","tag-schrodinger-cat","tag-silly","tag-song","tag-wheels-on-the-bus","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nround and round, round and round,
\nThe wheels on the bus go round and round,
\nAll through the town.<\/p>\n
\nmaybe not, maybe not…<\/p>\n
\nalive and dead, alive and dead…<\/p>\n
\n“Don’t play dice,” “Don’t play dice,”…<\/p>\n
\nbongo drums, bongo drums…<\/p>\n
\n“Eightfold Path,” “Eightfold Path,”…<\/p>\n
\n” ,” ” ,” …<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\n“Quark quark quark,” “Quark quark quark.”…<\/p>\n
\nspin-1\/2, spin-1\/2…<\/p>\n
\nin one state, in one state…<\/p>\n
\nalmost no mass, almost no mass…<\/p>\n
\nless than c<\/i>, less than c<\/i>…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"