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The Einstein Song

from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook by Jane Bom-Bane

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For my clever nephew, Luke, who is a real scientist and painstakingly went through versions of this song till he finally conceded, ‘Well, OK, but with a bit of scientific licence…’

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The endless possibilities of electromagnetic waves
Travelling 16 billion miles every seven days
Are an ever-moving spectrum of ultraviolet rays
And radio and infrared superposed in phase…

And if an EM wave should a metal surface hit
The energy of the photons which exist as part of it
Is passed on to electrons inside the metal plate
And the latter with their negative will finally escape

The metal surface now will have a greater positive
And thus a very useful store of energy to give
So – direct a beam of light on to a shiny metal slate
And then that force, could make, of course, an orrery rotate

A planet’s solar orbit keeps a parabolic pace
Erring to and from its path in modified time-space
But starlight beams will bend around the sun each time they pass
And energy’s the speed of light that squares itself times mass

This speed of light will keep an unadulterated course
Its momentum independent of the motion of its source
But the interval of time between two separate events
Is longer for observers in whose frame of reference
The happenings occur in different places, than for he
For whom they happen in the very same place…you see…

Atoms which absorb the neutrons in their way
Vibrate like trembling dew drops, then dramatically decay
They lose their binding mass from deficiencies of protons
Converting now to gamma rays or energetic photons

Energy can never be destroyed and not created
Movement, sound and light are in the strangest way related
Oscillating atoms and their heat are all as one
And shifting orbits spiral in and out, then they are gone

‘Simple thought,’ said Einstein, but his complicated laws
Invited future questions on a unifying cause
Governing the universe’s ever-flowing swing –
A theory culminating in… one for everything!

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from Jane Bom​-​Bane's Songbook, released May 26, 2022
Eliza Skelton & Kate Daisy Grant backing vocals
Kate DG - toy piano, snowshoe, cello
NP telecaster, double bass, theremin and synths

Hat JB-B and NP (the difficult bits) Video Eliza
youtu.be/D7kiEasSVrQ

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Jane Bom-Bane Rogers, Arkansas

JB-B performs original songs & poems to the accompaniment of harmonium. She's played around & outside the country & with Linda Thompson, David Thomas, John Bradbury, Rich Hall & David Cunningham, appeared solo on Ch 4, BBC 2, STV, Russian State TV, R 1,2,3,4 & 5Live, R Scotland & written many musicals performed with Eliza Skelton, Daisy Jordan, Emma Kilbey, Kate Daisy Grant etc at Bom-Bane's cafe. ... more

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