Large Hadron Rap

Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider! Links below...

Apparently YouTube fixed the sound! Still, Will Barras made two options trying to get around the original problems:
Other YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryB...
Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed...

Vimeo is downloadable if you log in.

There has been a lot of interest in the original mp3, lyrics, and vocals for remixing. You can find all that here:
https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap...

There's also been interest in translation. You can get a subtitle-free version from Vimeo here (downloadable):
http://www.vimeo.com/1730771

With backing track available here (with and without Hawking-style voice):
http://barras.ws/rappin.html

Go ahead and translate, rap it, and post it! Just give us a shout-out, and it's probably a good idea to include the following credits ;-)

Images came from:
particlephysics.ac.uk, space.com, the Institute of Physics, NASA, Symmetry, and Marvel

I forgot Einstein Online, and they called me out: http://www.einstein-online.info

And I forgot Physics World (dunno what I was thinking when I put together the extra dimensions bit). Steve Abel set me to rights (but made no demands): http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/p...

The talented dancers doubled as camera people, with some work by Neil Dixon. Stock footage is CERN's.

Will Barras is responsible for the killa beats:
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s9527813/

And thanks to MC Hawking, who first thought of using computer-voice to bring Stephen Hawking to the world of rap :-)
http://www.mchawking.com/

The rapper has a day job (we agree this is a good thing) as a science writer.
http://www.katemcalpine.com

They'll have a lot of data to sort. 15 million GB per year, actually. Want to get involved and donate your computer's downtime? Try LHC@home:
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/

• Category

  Science & Technology

[Grace Smith]

I feel so nerdy to understand this.

[TylerMontana]

I found the Higgs Boson... Here it is -> •

[mniseries]

dont worry, nerds rule! youre not the only nerd here

[TSimpson1993]

excellent.

[TimmyTheGreatOo]

By describing yourself as nerdy you implicitly proove yourself not to be a nerd, so don't worry about that

[Mauricio Correia]

Simply brilliant!

[Exclamity]

Do they do any work?

[Kayt Rivermoon]

They be JAMMIN ! Rock on, Physicists and Techs !



[Helena Garcia]

you feel nerdy because you LIKE this :P

[ukeuwatch]

0:18 Is that Brian Cox?

[SlenderCrow]

Their crew is limited to two thousands. That's the agreement condition for funding the project.