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ACT 2: THE CRACKS IN THE GLASS
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8. The Blackbody Riot

Lyrics • Collapse The Frame

Verse 1

Heat it up, watch the glow, watch the ultraviolet go!

Calculations hit a wall, watch the classical world fall!

The math is screaming "infinite," the physics says it’s wrong

We’ve been dancing to the rhythm of a dying siren song

Rayleigh and Jeans, yeah, they couldn’t find the fix

Caught in the middle of the classical tricks

But Planck is in the lab and he’s looking at the black

And he sees a little flicker and he’s never looking back!

Pre-Chorus

It’s not a wave, it’s a flicker in the dark

A revolutionary, terrifying spark

The wave is broken! The line is drawn!

Welcome to the quantum dawn!

RIOT!

Chorus 1

It’s the constant! The h in the math!

Burning a hole through the classical path!

Energy’s jumping! It’s hitting the floor!

Nothing is smooth in the world anymore!

It’s a riot of quanta! A break in the grain!

The ghost of the packet is taking the rein!

Verse 2

It’s discrete, it’s a count, it’s a set amount

Every single integer is all that’s gonna count!

The "Catastrophe" is over, the curve is finally right

But the cost of the answer is the death of the light

We’re living in a digital, quantized cage

Turning over to a terrifying page

Is it a particle? Is it a wave?

It’s the secret that the old gods took to the grave!

Pre-Chorus

It’s not a wave, it’s a flicker in the dark

A revolutionary, terrifying spark

The wave is broken! The line is drawn!

Welcome to the quantum dawn!

RIOT!

Chorus 2

It’s the constant! The h in the math!

Burning a hole through the classical path!

Energy’s jumping! It’s hitting the floor!

Nothing is smooth in the world anymore!

It’s a riot of quanta! A break in the grain!

The ghost of the packet is taking the rein!

Bridge

Yeah!

Step by step and bit by bit, I’m watching how the engine quit

The logic and the legacy are never gonna legacy-fit

Inside a world of symmetry, a fraction of a frame

We’re calling out the ghost and we’re never gonna be the same!

It’s a glitch in the velocity, a surge of animosity

The universe is breaking from a grand monstrosity!

The grain is showing! The world is glitching!

The ghost of the logic is finally twitching!

JUMP THE GAP!

BREAK THE FLOW!

HOW DEEP DOES THE REVOLUTION GO?!

RIOT! RIOT! RIOT!

Final Chorus

IT’S THE CONSTANT! THE AITCH IN THE MATH!

BURNING A HOLE THROUGH THE CLASSICAL PATH!

ENERGY’S JUMPING! IT’S HITTING THE FLOOR!

NOTHING IS SMOOTH IN THE WORLD ANYMORE!

IT’S A RIOT OF KWAN-TA! A BREAK IN THE GRAIN!

THE GHOST OF THE PACKET IS TAKING THE REIN!

Outro

E = hν...