Haiku in Physics Today

There on the letters page pf the April issue of Physics Today there’s a blue box with, instead of a letter, a haiku:

I can’t recall seeing anything quite like it before in the magazine.

There are plenty of physics-based haiku out there.

Mac Mestayer is an experimental physicist who worked at the Jefferson Lab in Newport News on understanding the quark structure of baryons, so he’s the right one to be writing this. He’s apparently retired as of 2022, according to his LinkedIn account.

The Leptons (sans one)

Electron, Muon
Electron Neutrino, Tau
Muon Neutrino

(The Tau Neutrino oscillated into one of the others, apparently.)

Don’t tell me my speed
Now I have no idea
Where the hell I am

(old physics joke made into a haiku)