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by Hemal Jayasuriya

Dr Hemal Jayasuriya never ceases to be amazed at the strangeness and fascination of our world, and finds in it a subject for endless speculation. He is a published poet and is acknowledged in the International Who’s Who in Poetry. He obtained a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Hemal also obtained a MA in Systems in Management, Lancaster University and a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, Hemal obtained a BSc Honours in Biophysics from Flinders University, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Aristotelian Society. His articles are published in international scientific journals. His poems are published in academic journals and books. Hemal is inspired by the material and immaterial in the world which shapes his poetry. He is fascinated by cosmology and scientific phenomena in the world.

POEM

Most Strange

Boxed in was Something ;
That something was most Strange.
The Box that contained it
Weighed the same before
And after that Strange Thing
Was put inside it.
Here was a puzzle that confronted Frank.
He deeply pondered what this Thing could be.
He called his workforce to break
Open the Box. There inside it
A tiny blue dot : a Photon, which had
Some weight, so small, it registered
No weight in the Macroscopic World
That surrounded it ; it was sometimes
A Particle, sometimes a Wave ; most Strange
Indeed : a Duality. Reality was Strange.
Honestly, to most racing legal minds
This, a Conundrum beyond their Ken.
An Entity where Opposites exist as One

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