'A Brief History of Gravity' by Bruce Elliott

It filled Galileo with mirth
To watch his two rocks fall to Earth. 
   He gladly proclaimed,
   'Their rates are the same,
And quite independent of girth!'


Then Newton announced in due course 
His own law of gravity's force:
   'It goes, I declare,
   As the inverted square
Of the distance from object to source.'


But remarkably, Einstein's equation
Succeeds to describe gravitation
   As spacetime that's curved,
   And it's this that will serve
As the planets' unique motivation.


Yet the end of the story's not written; 
By a new way of thinking we're smitten. 
   We twist and we turn,
   Attempting to learn 
The Superstring Theory of Witten!

'Cole's Lost Soul' by A. P. French

There was a young fellow named Cole
Who ventured too near a black hole.
   His dv by dt
   Was quite wondrous to see
But now all that's left is his soul.

'The Past Isn't What it Used To Be' by Bruce Elliott

A professor of Physics named May
Complains of the classroom today,
    'The problem, you know,
    Is that they're too slow.
We were far better students than they.'


His friend, a professor named Beecham,
Said 'It's true, you don't seem to reach 'em.
   But they're not to blame,
   For they haven't the same
Class of teachers that we had, to teach 'em!'

'Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen' by David Halliday

Two photons, close-coupled at start,
Flew several parsecs apart.
   Said one, in distress,
   'What you're forced to express
Removes any choice on my part.'

'On What's New and True'

A certain Phys Rev referee
Considers all papers with glee:
   'What's new is not true,
   And what's true is not new,
Unless it was written by me.'