Bez Berry

Quantum Theory

 

Here's a book that I thought I could master. 
Took a year - on and off.  A disaster. 
For when read to the end
I could not comprehend. 
Should have turned to the back even faster. 

A paragraph, to my dismay 
Told me all that it needed to say, 
'It can't be explained!'
I felt shattered and drained.
I think I'll throw the damn thing away. 

 

The paragraph read:

'Quantum theory cannot be explained. Physicists and mathematicians from Niels Bohr to Roger Penrose have admitted that it doesn't make sense.  What one can do is discover how the ideas developed and how the theory is applied.  Our book has concentrated on the former.' 
Aaah!