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.

Julien Lecomte September 9th, 2008 - 9:24 am
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 ;-)