many apologies to Edgar Allan Poe

Illustration by Édouard Manet from the 1875 French edition of “The Raven”, by Edgar Allan Poe.

“Physics!” said I, “thing of evil!- physics still, if wave or particle!-

Whether Teller sent, or whether Tube Alloys tossed thee here ashore,

Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land imploded-

In this lab by half-lives haunted- tell me truly, I implore-

Was there- was there bomb at Trinity?- tell me- tell me, I implore!”

Quoth the Raven, “Plutonium core.”

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