"A man, a plan, a canal--Panama" (1955)

[Mark A. Mandel]

(still catching up)
Jonathan Lighter writes:
   >>>>>
 I obtained most of my knowledge of relativity physics from the following,
but I can't recall the name(s) of the authors:

There was a young lady named Bright,
Who could travel much fater than light;
She departed one day
Ina relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

There was a young fencer named Fisk,
Whose stroke was exceedingly brisk;
But the relative action
Of the Fitzgerald contraction
Soon flattened his foil to a disk.
 <<<<<

If memory serves, I learned these from Martin Gardner's collection _The
Mathematical Mag<pi>_. I don't remember the authors' names either, but that
should help you find them.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]