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Based on “Defying Gravity” by Stephen Schwartz
NEWTON:
Some new equation’s hit me
Something is not the same
I’m through with playing by
The rules of Aristotle’s game
Delay my spectrum testing
Delay the fluid notes I keep
It’s time to trust my instincts
And theorize
A leap
It’s time to try defining gravity
I think I’ll try defining gravity
To know why things fall down
CROWD:
How can you think you understand
The planet equations of Kepler?
NEWTON:
I’m through inventing limits
The ones that Leibniz stole
Armed with this rate of change
And three laws I already know
Too long I’ve been afraid of
Sharing my inverse square law
Well here it comes
Principia Mathematica!
In which I try defining gravity
Masses define the foci in gravity
And they’re what pull things down
EINSTEIN:
Isaac
Come with me
Look at what we can prove
Together
Limited!
Your theory is so limited!
Low energy limit of its geodesic twin
Newton
Space conveys attraction
NEWTON
With a Hilbert action!
BOTH:
All semi-Riemannian
With space and time defining gravity
Me/you and Einstein refining gravity
There’s no such thing as down
EINSTEIN:
Well? Are you coming?
NEWTON:
I can’t. I’m already dead.
EINSTEIN:
Oh! Right. Okay...
I hope you’re happy
Now that your proof exists
NEWTON:
You too!
I hope it brings you bliss
And you never wind up manic
And deny quantum mechanics!
BOTH:
I hope you’re happy in the end
I hope you’re happy my friend
EINSTEIN:
So will you dare to join me
Taking the quest to find
One all-involving theory
Every force preserved and all combined
And if I die in toil
At least I die in peace
The world around me
Traced with geometric means
The way that I’m unifying gravity
Kaluza-Klein unifying gravity
With all the forces that we’ve found
And nobody, not Bohr or Bose
No physicist that is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down
NEWTON:
I hope you’re happy
CROWD:
Look at this new physics
Clever!
EINSTEIN:
Bring me down
CROWD:
Thank you for the physics
Now we know why things fall
EINSTEIN:
Ohhh!
CROWD:
Down!