Schrodinger's Cat's in the Cradle (Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin)

(Schrodinger's Cat on Wikipedia)


A theory was formed just the other day

You put a cat in a box and then you walk away

And there's a Geiger counter that will assay

if there's radioactive decay

and there's a vial full of poison, and it will break

But we won't know the cat's fate yet

You know we're gonna have to wait

　

The cat's in the box, is it alive or dead?

All these quantum physics are hurting my head

When you gonna open it?

I don't know when,

We'll find out together then

The superposition will end

　

The universe split just the other day

And the cat died in one world, but it's still okay

in a separate world. But to my dismay,

we don't know which we're in. No, we just can't say.

The multiverse hypothesis clearly states:

while we don't know the cat's fate yet,

the worlds are not overlaid

　

The cat's in the box, is it alive or dead?

All these quantum physics are hurting my head

When you gonna open it?

I don't know when,

We'll find out together then

The superposition will end

　

In Copenhagen just the other day

Bohr and Heisenberg had this to say

"It's both alive and dead, concurrently, perhaps

Observing it, will make the wave collapse.

This is possible because of quantum mechanics

It's natural; try to not panic."

　

The cat's in the box, is it alive or dead?

All these quantum physics are hurting my head

When you gonna open it?

I don't know when,

We'll find out together then

The superposition will end

　

We've since been defunded, and the box packed away

I tracked down Schrodinger the other day

I said, "I'd like to open it if you don't mind."

He said, "Well, be my guest, but it's a waste of time

You see, the box was a metaphor, and the cat isn't real.

It's a thought experiment, but not real.

 Yes, it all felt quite surreal.

I couldn't open the box; it just hurt my head

The cat's alive and dead

It's both alive and dead

　

The cat's in the box, is it alive or dead?

All these quantum physics are hurting my head

When you gonna open it?

I don't know when,

We'll find out together then

The superposition will end

Making Radium (On the Radio - Donna Summer)

(Because, many historical anachronisms notwithstanding, I like to believe that Marie and Pierre Curie celebrated their Nobel Prize in Physics with a Donna Summer dance party. And yes, I know the prize wasn't technically for making radium, but more for the discovery of and work with radiation and that the Radium Girls weren't happening around that time. Don't think I don't care and obsess over scientific accuracy; I do, but sometimes a little bit of inaccuracy fits the song better.)


Someone won the Nobel Prize for making radium

And they'll get a medal made of gold

They must have overlooked my contributions and experiments

They said the laureates

were Pierre and Becquerel


Whoa You were mad, complained to them, and so they added me

Now I'll get a Nobel medal too

We can't go there in person; we're too busy working here in Pare-ee

But they're celebrating us, in Sweden for


making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa oh oh oh

making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh


Now, now

Don't it kinda strike you sad when you hear our work

is being used to make all the watch faces glow

The girls who paint them ingest the radium, and they get sick

It causes pain and anemia, death and woe


Whoa, oh, yeah, yeah

And it made me feel proud when I heard you say

You couldn't find the elements by yourself

And now in my heart I know radiation's making me sick

But they're celebrating us, in Sweden for


making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa oh oh

making Radium


If you think that love can't be found making radium

Well come right in you may find an isotope

'Cause now I'm sitting here with my daughter and her Nobel Prize

They're celebrating us, in Sweden for


making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa, oh, oh

making Radium

Whoa oh oh

making Radium  

Lawrencium (Hot Blooded - Foreigner)

(I don't know what possessed me to write about the chemical element Lawrencium attempting to romance a lab tech, but I do so enjoy singing it in the supermarket. Bonus mini-parody of the Beatles' Revolution: "You say you want an eka-luteium...")


Well, I'm Lawrencium, check it and see

Atomic number of a hundred and three

Come on lab tech, do you do more than dance?

I'm Lawrencium, I'm Lawrencium


You don't have to read a guide, you know I'm an actinide

Honey your white coat's drab

Now you can decide, let our particles collide

You look fab; let's spend the night outside the lab


Use the microscope; we can make a stable isotope

Just use the scope, and I'll decay like you have only hoped


Because Lawrencium decays really quick

Atomic weight of two hundred sixty six

Come on lab tech, do you do more than dance?

I'm Lawrencium, I'm Lawrencium (LR)


Please don't turn your back, let's get away from here and not come back. oh

Before we pack, we need approval from the IUPAC


Well, I'm Lawrencium, check it and see

Atomic number of a hundred and three

Come on lab tech, do you do more than dance?

I'm Lawrencium, I'm Lawrencium


Lawrencium, my symbol's Lr

Lawrencium, we could go very far

Lawrencium, you're setting me free

Lawrencium, with your chemistry

Pi r squared (Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News)

I used to be a renegade, I used to guesstimate

But I couldn't tell if I was right; I couldn't validate

Now I'm using formulae, and my results, I'll share

You might think it's harder, but I say that's unfair

Determining circumferences,


Just use pi r squared


I like my math with variables, I like geometry

I measure angles every day in trigonometry

They tell me that it's difficult, but this I do declare:

If you want to measure circles, you have to be aware

for there is no denying that you


Must use pi r squared


It's not too hard to figure out, you use math every day

And those who choose to estimate are all in disarray

You see them doing homework, they're struggling to survive

Without my favorite constant, three point one four one five

Don't tell me that it's useless, Don't tell me you don't care

Take it from me


Just use pi r squared


Here, there, and everywhere

Pi r, Just use pi r squared

Here, there, and everywhere