Fifteenth of April, 1726
Sunny skies with a cloudy mix
The Cambridge lad out for a stroll
Yeah, they had those before malls
Deciding to take a little shade
Oh that decision, history it made
Nestling below a nice apple tree
Letting his mind wander free
An apple oh so plump and red
Fell straight onto Newton’s head
The apple just harmlessly bounced
away
But thing it did was here to stay
Suddenly an idea struck his wit
Why actually his head was hit
The apple could have roam around
free
Then why did it ‘fall’ from the tree
What if the Earth attracts the apple
and the apple attracts the earth
And so gravitation took birth
Newton worked tirelessly day and
night
To prove what was right
And finally on a new branch of
physics, light he shed
All because of the apple that fell on
Newton’s head
I wish I had a time machine
And could turn back the clock
Visit Newton, cancel his walk
And maybe gravitation would never
have been thought about
And we would have given our exams
without any doubt
But the time machine requires
science as well
Will it be made, well, only ‘time’ will
tell
Till then the laws of gravitation, we
continue to dread
All because of the apple that fell on
Newton’ head!
But what if Isaac hadn’t sat
Would we still have thought that the
Earth was flat?
Would my gadgets turn into
parchment and scroll
If he wouldn’t have taken that stroll
Okay I agree, that it put humanity
well ahead
The apple that fell on Newton's head
-Paavas Bhasin
S5-C