Compactified On A Circle Of Radius R

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Verse

Nineteen twenty-one.
A paper, filed in triplicate.

Five dimensions.
Four extended.
One not.

Verse

The fifth is a circle.
Radius R.
Below ten to the minus thirty-three centimetres.

Too small to resolve.
Too small to enter.

Chorus

Compactified on a circle.
Compactified on a circle.
Radius R.

Verse

Walk north.
Walk east.
Walk up.

Now walk the fifth way.
You return to the same point.

Verse

The metric gains one row.
The metric gains one column.

In the new entries:
the electromagnetic potential.

Light as a shadow of geometry.
That is the claim.

Verse

Charge is momentum.
Momentum around the circle.
Quantised, because the circle closes.

Chorus

Compactified on a circle.
Compactified on a circle.
Radius R.

Instrumental solo

Bridge

Mass tower.
Each excitation heavier than the last.
Spacing: inverse R.

We have never seen the second rung.
The first rung is everything we have measured.

Verse

The radius must be stabilised.
Nothing in the theory stabilises it.

This is the moduli problem.
It is not resolved.

Verse

Dust lifted on a fingertip.
The surface reads as flat.
The surface is not flat.

A bubble settles between the two marks.
The lamp goes red to green.

Verse

Nineteen twenty-six.
A second paper.
A wave in the fifth direction.

The scalar field was not observed.
The predicted mass was wrong by orders.

Verse

The idea was set aside.
The idea was taken up again.
The idea is still here.

Chorus

Compactified on a circle.
Compactified on a circle.
Radius R.

Outro

Too small to see.
Too small to see.

Not disproven.