Mechanics Is Mystifying (Educational) Poem by Spock the Vegan

The mathematical study of the motion
of everyday objects and the forces that
affect them is called classical mechanics.

Galileo Galilei found that a heavy object
and a light object fell at the same rate,
refuting what Aristotle had taught.

Ancients believed that the stars were all
at a fixed distance in the firmament with
the earth at the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed that the
planets instead revolved around the sun.

Johannes Kepler, using Tycho Brahe's detailed
observations, realized that the planets moved
around the sun not in circles but in ellipses,
with the sun at one focus of the ellipse.

Sir Isaac Newton developed the mathematics
for how things move in space that are still
used by NASA in their space probes, and
proposed his law of universal gravitation.

Albert Einstein showed that Newton's math
was not quite right and proposed that planets
move in a straight line through curved space.

In spiral galaxies the orbiting of stars around
their centers seems to strongly disobey known
laws. Astrophysicists propose Dark matter.