[A Spot of Quantum] (in Wonderlandese, with a pocket watch that ticks sideways) --- [Hatter // Quick-Witted // Glittering with Glee] [Clock gears whirr, silver spoon taps crystal glass] Now my watch—oh dear—won’t tick or tock right. It jiggles and jitters in leftover light. You see, in its face there’s a tea-time or two— And one might be now... while the other’s quite new! --- [Chorus // Glitchy Harmony // Unstable Rhythm] [Boiling kettle bubbles, dice roll FX] It ticks when it feels like it’s being observed, But if no one looks? Well, it’s rather reserved. A tick and a tock both fighting for place— Till I peek and collapse them to one single face. --- [Lewis // Bemused and Proper] [Feather pen scratches, bell-jar ring] Particles? Ha! They're only half-seen. A cat in a box, or a hat in a dream. It’s not that they’re hiding, or being quite coy— They’re both and they’re neither—a trick to employ. --- [Hatter // Riddled Rhythms // Fast Talk] [Quantum chirps, deck shuffle FX] Now Heisenberg’s rules are a dreadful delight— I check where you are, and your speed takes flight! Or I chase how you're moving—oh what a shame! Then where you once were won’t ever stay the same. --- [FX: QUANTUM TEA STORM – Schrödinger Pulse, Entangled Snare Twists, Planck-Scale Flutter] ??!?=+=?~?!? !@Collapse@! @Wink&Split! @CatAliveDeadKit! (Superposed spoons and interlaced jam...) (I stir in a maybe and pour out an am.) (Entangled with clocks that disagree on the now...) (So where is the Hatter? Depends on the how!) --- [Chorus // Spinning Voices // Teacup Doppler FX] [Slinky mandolin and bell tree cascade] So tip your hat to uncertainty’s song, Where being and not-being both get along. My watch runs backward, forward, askew— Because quantum, dear Alice, just likes to confuse you. --- [Hatter // Slow Drawl // Whispered Wink] [Ticking slows, time evaporates] What time is it? Depends if you care. Observe too closely, and you’ll scare it bare. But let it be jumbled, and let it be queer— And perhaps, like the watch, you’ll be everywhere near. --- [End] (A Spot of Quantum: the jam is both spread and unstirred, The spoon floats, the tea whispers truths quite absurd.)