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Intriguing as they are, and
Just beautiful when they're done,
Know that these Hamilton Vectors squared, or
Produced make
-1
. :dink:

The roots of unity,
In the plane,
may be arbitrary or six,
but in Der Raum,
I am afraid.
They use some other tricks!
Hamilton spent nigh ten long years,
hunting these creatures down,
When all of a sudden,
up they popped,
And stole away his frown!
"Sir Hamilton you did joust right well!"
The "minus" one of them did cry,
"And now our secret i,j reveal as
k, the hidden spy!"
Well i am told
That Hamilton bold
Did let his sparks  so fly.
That upon a bridge in Brougham
The slain miscreants nearby lie.

Shunya's children stretch out their hands
And frame the very heavens of our lands.
And reaching down they pick right up
A trifle that Max Planck did drop,
when last he trundled past this way.
Small or Large
Magnetic or Charge
The roots of unity find their way,
into our hearts and minds to stay.

Hang back, but be quite brave!
For mighty gravity is their Slave,
And whipping neutrons into circus rings,
They tame nuclear  fusion among other things,
But no applause is needed nor is due
Until they reproduce the rainbow's Hue!

Have you some time, Max Planck said
i am troubled, as you see?
i have a very small difference to discuss
Between just you and me!
I see..
i said.
Oh no you don't, for it is way to small!
Its at the limit of perception
And applies to one and all!
Again and again i've worked it out
This fundamental length.
You have to give me credit, sir!
Or by God give me strength!
I started at his perplexity,
His face was flushed and red,
And then at once he laughed and rubbed his eyes
And quieter, softly said
Besides..
The Quaternions must be fed!

I am late! I'm late!
The white rabbit rubbed his pate.
His watch was out
 Vest  pulled about
And the clock bonged four
Not Eight.
Fiddlesticks! and Riddlesticks!
i set my watch for four.
And now my watch is chiming
it says its eight or more !
What shall i do? What shall i do?
And which way shall i go?
If the Queen's Quaternions catch me up,
its into the pot, i know!
I'll be turned  about
and swirled in and out
And made a proper stew!
Or else they'll put me on a spit
my Axis through and through,
Roasted and toasted will i be
As round and round i turn
and that will be the end of me!
At the hands of quaternions!

i fear that this poesy is in french for rythmos.
but i try a translation... origine my cat women.

In a whole .. asphodele... from the greek asiphodeles
in a feild of gol
pain pain and thousand of desire
it spoke about death.
wish to be with you in a gigantic bed made for platonik lover

be holly in honey
where  i carry my fire
enought to burn my eye's
you! you love to change
you like halloween

i think your not a real person.

quaternion.OK
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68454194/1%5B01%5D.bmp

great, the first one is really poetic, lol  ...

Please sinplx also give the French original. Poetry transcends the translation barrier like music!

from whom is the first one ???

I am not so good in poetry I hope my interpretation is correct!

Hamilton once stated:
(http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/quaternionen-algebra.gif)

Pauli said:
(http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/pauli-1.gif) (http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/pauli-2.gif) (http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/pauli-3.gif)
So we have:
(http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/i-pauli-quaternion.gif)  (http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/j-pauli-quaternion.gif) (http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/k-pauli-quaternion.gif)

Assuming i² = -1 and

(http://www.wackerart.de/mathematik/physik-matrizen/einheits-matrix-2-2.gif)

Ok?

Hermann
P.S nice picture: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68454194/1%5B01%5D.bmp (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68454194/1%5B01%5D.bmp)

Quaternionen!
Sie, habe ich nicht rechtfertigen
Aber verwandelt, als Die Strecken
Mache ich noch Die Mannigfaeltigkeit
Immer zukunft aus der Zeit!

hey jehova, are those poems by yourself ?!?! or who is author ???

As numbers go, they're very Odd!
More like Inspector Morse than PC Plod!

Que pense tu sur les Quaternion?
Comme le Fatou ou L'Argand?
Ils sont tres mystrieuse
Et entrent dans les Salle d'Interieux
et forrment les petites fleures
Magnifique
Dans une Monde trop de Fantastique!