Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Zack Murray Oct 2012
August 10th, you seemed so distant
Not quite as distant as the barrel of one gun
The gun that fired the shot that would stun
The scientific world, from Rutherford to Niels Bohr
To find out esteemed fellow scientist Moseley was no more

But before that, in 1913
X-ray spectra was naught more than a dream
Before diffraction through crystals became the truth
The wavelengths needed a meaning, and there was proof
You developed a mathematical system without flaw
One so great, it was named "Moseley's law"

Mendeleev had the right idea, but not a plan
Could not arrange the elements the way that you now can
Without you, my sir, we would not have had this premium
To enjoy the elements technetium, hafnium, promethium, and rhenium
These gaps that like stars littered the periodic table
Were filled with ease, and the cosmos became stable

You had set the foundation for crystallography of x-rays
A method of determining arrangement that is still used in modern days
The first machines in use were those for which you had the design
But their widespread use you could not see as there simply was no time
For during a battle, as you made the phone set run
A bullet took your grace away, a scientist dying young
Liam Jul 2015
ink of sky inhabits her eyes
  essence of serenity almondine
so spanish in silvern adornment
  though her soul is hafnium pierced

a haven for both life and death
  embodiment of artistic expression
openly hooded in earlobe spirituality
  nominally patrician by disposition

my source stirs in futile disarray
  kindred energy infusing the moment
a tree appears on a barren landscape
  devoid of foliage, vivaciously rooting
Nora Morell Feb 2016
En lille kvantefluktuation
kan udløse inflation
Du bliver til en ursuppe
Millioner grader varm
Hvor ingen elementarpartikler
kan parres
Hvor selv lyd og lys ikke kan trænge
igennem dig

Når jeg ligger søvnløs
disse nætter
Trøster jeg mig selv
ved tanken om
at om ca 13,82 milliarder år
Har du udvidet dig
og du har tempereret dig
Så systemer af sole, stjerner
og støv kan bestå
Så heliumkerner, hydrogen og
hafnium kan dannes
Og jeg endelig kan trække vejret
i dit
**kosmiske temperament

— The End —