Science  Write  Now

connections 

are consequential

 

>~<

 

approximations 

of reality

 

~quantum 

electrodynamics

in story~

 

diagrams illustrating

a narrative of particle

interaction

 

[framing 

the problem]

 

behaviour and interplay

of the subatomic world

 

//each vertical slice//

a moment of estimation: 

               horizontal axis in space       

vertical axis in time

 

how elementary 

particles collide

 

giving voice to 

                the probability 

                of a given process

 

wavy lines~

force particles bosons

 

straight lines— 

matter particles fermions

 

>every line must connect

to at least one vertex<

 

charged particles 

                 expressive

with their own fields

 

one possible scene:

electron and positron

annihilate producing

a photon becoming 

a quark/antiquark pair

the antiquark radiates 

a gluon

 

these epic tales

allegories of transfers

fluctuations and scatterings

               transitions of energy

 

emission—propagation—absorption

 

the very things

we seek to understand

 

these underlying paths 

                in snapshot

 

each connection

is meaningful