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What I’ve Learned About Quantum Physics From Searching Wikipedia*

Quantum mechanics is a set
of scientific principles
describing the known
behavior of energy,
a quantity
that can be assigned
to every particle,
a particle not known

to have substructure;
a structure
whose domain
is a subset, especially in
set theory, the branch
of mathematics, the study
of quantity, structure,
space, and change.

Focused on limits,
functions, derivatives,
integrals, and infinite
series, given an infinite
sequence, a set
that is not a finite set.
A set that has a finite
number

of elements
is any one
of the distinct objects
that make up that,
the relation, a binary relation
on a set, a collection of
distinct objects, considered as
an object in its own right.


* This poem was written by pulling a section of the first sentence from the Wikipedia article on Quantum Physics and following the subsequent links at the end of said sentence, and repeating. The whole experience turned out to be interestingly reductive, like the child who keeps asking "Why?" until the adult finally admits they simply do not know.