APPLE 'n' SCIENCE?

Sometime in 1852

Of all the scientists, there were two

Newton and Pascal, both we know

Entered the Cambridge Agricultural Show.

Apples were what Newton grew

That's what Pascal was growing too

So these two had their pride at stake

A show to win and a name to make.

From the fall of that very season

Apples were experimented on, for no reason

They believed with their scientific touch

A triumph was possible, very much.

So they slogged, day and night

To grow apples, all red and bright

But only wormy apples had grown

OF trees that Pascal had sown.

So Pascal was a worried chap

But soon donned his thinking cap

Lotsa chemicals, he tried to cook

To make his apples have a better look.

But Pascal was never successful

And realised, he had to be more thoughtful.

All this while, Newton was bringin' up

Lovely, large apples to win the cup.

Pascal chafed with fury and pride

And it churned about his mind,inside

Coz unless he found a way to cheat

He knew he'd make an ugly retreat.

So Blaise Pascal, he sneaked northwards

To Newton's famous apple orchards

There fenced secure, wrapped with a cord

Hung the apples which expected the award.

"My! This is far too easy."

Snickered Pascal, snide and sleazy.

He clipped an apple. Alas! it fell,

Bouncing into the garden well.

But it didn't roll into Newton's well

Before making his head swell

Coz it hit him just above his brain

When he was chatting with his buddy, Einstein.

While Pascal hid, biding his time

Newton immediately realised the crime

But when things were to get chaotic,

Newton got absolutely ecstatic.

Newton had made a discovery of an invention

And called it the theory of gravitation

Now, there doesn't end the story

coz we can't give Newton all the glory.

And, Pascal, a great thinker, as we saw

Soon thought up his very own law!

A change in pressure, Pascal finished

Is transmitted everywhere, undiminished.

Well, who won? You may ask

That,actually, wasn't a difficult task

Neither Isaac nor Blaise,

It was an apple that won the final praise.

Coz it was that very fruit,

That made these people think to their root

And, since then, apples've come a long way

That today, they keep even doctors away!

© Karthik Dec 14th 2005 11:34 AM (PST)