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Sep
9
2008

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Here’s a pointer to a scientifically accurate rap about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Story on www.telegraph.co.uk - YouTube permalink.

From the story:

Now a larky but accurate rap song explaining the point of the 17 mile circumference machine [under Switzerland and France], which formally starts up on September 10, has made a star of Kate McAlpine, 23, aka “alpinekat”, who stars with her friends in a YouTube video that has been downloaded more than [was 400,000 times when the article was published, and nearly 1.4mm now.]

I liked watching the video. I’ve heard about the LHC before, but this 4 minutes taught me new facts about both the collide and its science. And there’s funny dancing.

One Response to “Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Rap”

  1. Hmmm, I’ve been to CERN several times (I used to live a few miles from Geneva, on the French side) and I’ve never seen scientists dancing there… Maybe the LHC has some hallucinogen properties I may not know about ;-)

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