Quantum Honey Deconstruction
ATTENTION: Do not read this before giving yourself the opportunity to understand it from your own perspective.
Any of the physics terms (eg, Baryon, Meson, Muon, etc.) can easily be Googled, but there is a LOT of word play going on in telling a scene in parallel with itself.
So by way of explanation:
“I come craving the color of your strange flavor on my tongue”
This is in reference, aside from the obvious, to the color charge of a quark (Red, Blue, Green, anti-Red, anti-Blue, and anti-Green) and to a type/flavor of quark called the Strange quark (there are 6 flavors: Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Charmed, and Strange).
“quantum syrup”
This is in reference to the time period shortly after the Big Bang of the Singularity when matter was so dense and hot that it had not yet formed sub-atomic particles into atoms, but existed as a flow of quark-matter, which is sometimes referred to as a quantum soup (or syrup, which I think sounds sexier than “soup”).
In the poem it’s also referential, metaphorically, to the desire to touch and be touched by the most basic elements of another in a pure unfiltered river of her most elementary “essence.”
“…red blushed arousal crawling across your skin in chroma-exchange as I turn blue kissing my heat into you.”
In a baryon, there are usually three quarks which must balance to a neutral charge. Color charges, unlike electrical charges, come in three (actually 6 with the anti’s) as opposed to the - and + of electrical charges. These are Red, Blue, and Green (and their anti counterparts). So to be a balanced Baryon, the Colors must maintain a neutral charge consisting of a Red quark, a Blue quark, and a Green quark (or in the case of anti-matter, an anti-Red, anti-Blue, and anti-Green).
The thing is, the color charge is not a set aspect of a quark. They’re all capable of being red, blue, or green and they shift constantly.
So, what happens when a Blue quark in a baryon turns Red? Typically the Blue quark will use it’s “carrier,” the gluon to send it’s “Blueness” to the Red quark which will now become Blue as the Blue quark turns Red, thereby maintaining the balance. I called this a chroma-exchange but that’s a poetic term I made up. It’s correctly referred to as Quantum Chromodynamics.
“the petal-soft event horizon blushed from my touch”
While an event horizon is most typically used in reference to black holes, here it is used based on it’s more pure definition: “a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. In layman’s terms, it is defined as “the point of no return”, i.e., the point at which the gravitational pull becomes so great as to make escape impossible, even for light.”
I doubt anyone who read the poem has any doubt what the bushed petal-soft event horizon is referring to in the parallel, but the relation is one of metaphor where I’m speaking of passing a boundary to a different level of intimacy, a point of no return (once there, I would have no desire to return), and a gravitational pull so strong as to make escape impossible. It’s an apt expression of my state of desire unwilling to want anything else at that moment.
“ Come up, sweetness, come up;
I’m going down.”
The common arrangement of quarks in a baryon are three Up or Down quarks (and sometimes Strange quarks but that’s getting deep into Isospins and Strangeness).
The arrangement of quarks determines the total electrical charge of the baryon particle, which should combine to make a whole number out of the fractional charges.
U=Up quark (+2/3 charge)
D=Downquark (−1/3 charge)
Therefore the deltas are:
Δ++UUU, +2/3+2/3+2/3=+6/3 or +2 (two +s)
Δ+ UUD, +2/3+2/3−1/3=+3/3 or +1 (one +)
Δ0 UDD, +2/3−1/3−1/3= 0 or neutral charge
Δ− DDD −1/3−1/3−1/3= −3/3 or −1 (one −)
In my poem I refer to a UUD arrangement for a positive charge. The parallel, in plain terms, is a prompting her to come up (from going down) because I want to go down on her.
“Sliding quark on quark — Up, down, up”
Describing the quarks in a baryon as us, sliding against each other, and then another reference to the Up Up Down. There’s also one other reference here which I’m keeping private :)
“Attempting fusion, verging on fission”
Fusion is, at it’s most basic, the combination of two atoms into a different element (ie, the hydrogen atoms in a star get slammed together so hard that they meld, forming helium atoms). The parallel reference is two seemingly attempting to become one, pressing as closely as possible.
Fission is, at it’s most basic, the splitting of an atom into it’s composite particles. Think nuclear reactors and bombs. The parallel reference is holding onto the verge of orgasm as long as possible, wanting more, not wanting it to end yet, dividing into two separate individuals.
“we couple, decouple, and recouple”
I’m not a “one and done” kind of guy.
“red and anti-red till we’re ember-eyed mesons existing only to explode”
Unlike the Baryon, the Meson is usually composed of 2 quarks: 1 color and 1 anti-color. This also results in a neutral color charge (think -1+1). The Baryon is important for stable atomic construction (all Matter quarks), The Meson, however contains a particle (matter) and it’s exact anti-particle (anti-matter).
When Matter encounters Antimatter, they annihilate each other into pure energy (E=mc², most of us have heard or seen, it means Energy is equal to the Mass * the Speed of Light squared which simply puts into an equation form the numbers of the law of conservation of matter (that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted to energy).
This makes a Meson extremely unstable and as such their lifespans are usually 0.00000000005116 seconds (for a K-long meson) or much much shorter, before the quark and anti-quark annihilate each other. Those quarks come together for short moment and explode in each other, matter converted to pure energy.
That explained, I think the parallel of this metaphor is… fairly obvious. :)
