Large Hadron Rap, best supercollider rap ever

BrookynTwang sez, "Check out this video for the Large Hadron Rap, by far the greatest physics rap of all time. The flow is halfway decent, and it accurately covers a lot of knowledge related to particle physics and the LHC. Its by AlpineKat, alter-ego of a science writer currently working at the LHC."

Oh that's fantastic! I got to tour Cern and the LHC last week and got a ton of great pics, and came away with the impression that if this thing causes the universe to wink out of existence, it'll have been worth it. Large Hadron Rap, My photos from Cern

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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the Other michael

how come there isnt a repraprap
brooklyntwang

Yes, that would be Les Horribles Cernettes, or LHC for short.
magista

This is totally going to be included in the new section of my physics course on the standard model!
agentengram

Well thats pretty cool fer sure. They even have a video, but TRF was rapping about CERN and the LHC before it was cool. But thats Nerdcore, we rap about uncool things, at least the things the normals dont consider cool.

Madman The Greatest Remix of Cern Giddyup

CERN Giddyup
SuperStrong

This is a little late, but I run a production company that makes radio-quality educational rap and pop music. We really need to add videos to them, but in the meantime the songs will blow you away. The gauntlet has been thrown!

Here’s the first science album:

Rhythm, Rhyme, Results
http://www.educationalrap.com/8/science.html
Micah

Best supercollider rap ever?

Maybe, but not best physics rap ever. I’d have to nominate MC Hawking, the dopest computer rapper around, for his classic E=mc Hawking. It’s a shame they took down the best MP3s from that site.
JDspeeder1

She can collide with my hadrons any time.
brooklyntwang

I also love how many of the comments on the youtube video page are from people that think the LHC is going to destroy the earth.

And I am still just amazed how AlpineKat is able to succinctly explain, in so few lines, things like mass-energy equivalence, the case for dark matter, how particle collision are used to detect unseen particles using conservation of energy/momentum, what antimatter is, the mystery of unequal amounts of matter/antimatter, the higgs mechanism for giving mass to particles, the weakness of gravity and its possible explanation with extra dimensions, and what each experiment (LHCb, ALICE, CMS, ATLAS) is doing.

I guess being a professional science writer helps.

Cory, I’m so jealous of your trip to CERN. I’m on the waiting list, which means I’ll get to visit sometime several years from now.
Zippy Gonzales

New Scientist’s blog has a less fuzzy version of the vid:
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/07/rappin-physics.html
ErikO23

i disagree with the notion that MC Hawking is better. He didn’t say much and his flow was weaker in my opinion.
ill lich

Yeah. . . uhhh. . . no offense, but that flow is so 1982. It sounds like typical “clueless ‘herb’ attempts rhyming” to me, like whenever Homer Simpson tries to rap. But then again it IS just a novelty song, so it’s no worse than “Rapping Duke” I guess.

Nice idea though, and it could’ve been much worse.
Man On Pink Corner

Is there a place where this is posted with its original (meaning, non-fucked-by-Youtube) sound?
FumarMata

Scientists can’t dance
Xenu

Yikes. There should be a law against people like Cory blogging about rap videos.
Agent 86

Greatest Physics rap of all time? I think not! Maybe most informative.
fightcopyright

These physics raps just perpertuate anti-matter stereotypes and encourage further annihilation.

Oh sure they claim to rap about “reality”, but scientists need to realize that they are role models and focus on positive messages like magnetic monopoles.
Faustus

@Fightcopyright

Hahahaha! Awesome comment.
MrMonkey

Pardon the “me too” comment, but that was AWESOME!

The best part was in the credits, where it says “Back-up dancers prefer anonymity”. Too funny.
MarkHB

That’s hilarious :D Thanks for sharing.
albedo

Day late but thought it pertinent to point out a precedent: CERN also hosted the first ever photographic image on the WWW (posted by St. Tim), that of Les Cernettes, another all-femme band spawned from particle collisions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cernettes
trr

Meanwhile, Tevatron (http://www-d0.fnal.gov/Run2Physics/WWW/index.htm) is already getting cool results and is no one is talking about it.
se7a7n7

Great video! So much easier to follow than reading “The Elegant Universe”
G_E_Gardner

“…came away with the impression that if this thing causes the universe to wink out of existence, it’ll have been worth it. ”

Heck, it might be worthwhile even if it doesn’t destroy the universe.
padster123

Really nicely done. Actually gave me shivers up my back – the amazing things that are being attempted.

And that must be a pretty exciting place to be working, as a young scientist…
THE FIFTH KNIGHT

Well let’s just ‘Rap-Rap-Rap’ right down this rabbit-hole, and see how far it really goes!

http://thefifthknight.blogspot.com/

Remember: Follow the ‘White Rabbit’!