H.G. Peterson is a world-wide literary phenomenon
as well as being inventor of the extra-super collider.

Inundation of Shame, Part I

There are a dozen little building bricks
For of quarks and leptons there are each six
Quarks come in their flavors, there are three pairs
Up-Down, Strange-Charmed, and Top-Bottom are there
Now the six leptons you have in this batch
Each has a neutrino type that they match
The electron, muon, tau are the three
These with their partners all six leptons be

There’s a group like these with opposite charge
Though their numbers are not very large
These are the antiparticles, you see
They do not make up things like you and me
But when matter and anti-matter meet
They blow up each other which is quite neat
There may also be sparticles somewhere
That’s not proven so you don’t need to care

That’s what makes up matter, like dogs and suns
They are called fermions isn’t that fun?

Inundation of Shame, Part II

Matter alone doesn’t the cosmos comprise
There’s energy too, in four-forcéd guise
Electromagnetism is a force
And gravity is also one of course
Two nuclear forces, the strong and weak
Round out the four forces of which we speak
Yet perhaps they are all one and the same
If one figures that out, they’ll get much fame

You know forces come from particles too
Ws, Z, and eight gluons that glue
Photons make up light, we can’t leave them out
So that there are twelve, or so there about
These particles can pop in from nowhere
And disappear again, without a care
Larger they are, the less time they are here
Stronger forces only work when they’re near

These force particles, bosons they are known
Make the sun shine and spin like a cyclone