Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC

Engadget has pointed out a small band of people even we can consider nerdy that decided to cut loose and demo CERN's fancy new toy, the Large Hadron Collider. The resulting music video is certainly enough to "rock you in the head," and maybe even enough to cause a rip in space-time. Between Alpinekat and Dr Spatzo, I think my iPod just got a new entry.

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[komatosis]

Is this a dupe?

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[jo42]

Yo, Kidz in da hood, "rap" is 3/4s of "crap".

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[Anonymous Coward]

And the other 1/4 is, of course, "C"

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[alexj33]

The bad news: The LHC might destroy the world.

The good news: The guys who made this rap video, along with Michael Bolton, are going up in smoke with us.

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[owlnation]

I've always wondered why the initial "c" was silent.

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[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

"Hey, baby. Wanna see my heavy particles?"

"Hey, no, how you doin? Wanna see my large hadron collider?"

"Hey, baby. Wanna go in the back and see...the injection apparatus?"

"Hey, baby. Wanna see my microscopic object that only lasts a nanosecond before it goes away? Oh, wait. That came out wrong."

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[Gromius]

it was heavily featured in the comments of the previous LHC article a week ago, which is why you think its a dupe but technically its not. Or maybe it is, does reposting comments in a previous article as a new article count as a dupe?

examples here [slashdot.org] and here

That rocks!

[clang_jangle]

I love geek rock, and that one really does rock! That lead rapper is awesome, and the lyrics are simply fantastic. The vid itself is quite cool as well.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the cameo by MC Steven Hawking was great...

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[ThePromenader]

Okay, the scientists dancing are tragically white, but the lyrics and graphics rock - even grade-schoolers would 'get it'. This should be teaching material.

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[clang_jangle]

I think the "tragically white" moves are meant to be parody, actually. But you're right, this is excellent teaching material, and I hope it will get used for that. The lyrics are just so superbly crafted, and Alpinekat really delivers them.

Re:That rocks!

[Gromius]

Yes the coolest and most impressive thing about it in my opinion is that it is 99% scientifically accurate and condenses the science into a pretty reasonable and semi complete explanation without losing too much. The only artistic liberty I spotted is that it claims we should spot the Higgs boson straight away which is wishful thinking :)

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[azgard]

The only artistic liberty I spotted is that it claims we should spot the Higgs boson straight away which is wishful thinking :)

I guess that CERN people actually believe that one. :-)

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[Gromius]

Some do, most dont. However it is the offical proganda :)

Basically if its in the exact right place and we get very lucky we could see it early next year. We could also win the lottery (to be fair the chances of seeing the Higgs straight away isnt as bad as that but its not good).

Signed,
A particle physicist who hopes the Higgs doesnt exist as that would be a disappointment.

Re:That rocks!

[should_be_linear]

The only artistic liberty I spotted is that it claims we should spot the Higgs boson straight away which is wishful thinking

They should yell to that machine: "Will the real Higgs boson please stand up?"

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[h4rm0ny]

Okay, the scientists dancing are tragically white

If something looks stupid, that doesn't change based on someone's skin colour. No exceptions.

But that said, I think the video is actually pretty groovy and I can also see the odd teacher showing it in a classroom (if teachers are still allowed to do something not listed on their government curriculum).

Btw, one the best and most influential rappers is white. *cough*Eminem*cough*

Re:That rocks!

[mattcasters]

Eminem is dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!)

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[Briareos]

Btw, one the best and most influential rappers is white. *cough*Eminem*cough*

Emin-who?

Sage Franics, Aesop Rock, Alias, Dose One, Scroobius Pip, El-P and dozens of others also happen to be white, and you cite freaking Eminem?

Oi.

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[ScreamingCactus]

Don't forget Eamon!

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[WeeLad]

int eighty [dualcoremusic.com]?

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[untaken_name]

Only because he's better than all of them. And yes, I love Sage, Alias, and Slug but seriously...the only white boy who could MAYBE handle Eminem in a battle would be Eyedea and he would probably lose like he did in the rap olympics. Whether you like it or not, Eminem is really, really talented. As much as it may pain me to say it, there's a reason he's sold more albums than all the rappers you mentioned put together.

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[nomadic]

Sage Franics, Aesop Rock, Alias, Dose One, Scroobius Pip, El-P and dozens of others also happen to be white, and you cite freaking Eminem?

You honestly consider those people to be "influential"?

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[rootooftheworld]

Why have I only heard about Eminem as a white rapper? Oh, right cuz he's the only one who knows how to make a raket about himself. I'm not trolling, but lets face it, he's the big dady of white rap (no pun intended). BTW, were you trolling yourself?

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[gringer]

The lead rapper? You mean ALICE, right? The one that looks at collisions of lead ions.

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[drakono]

Yesterday I heard that some ITT employees [todaysfaci...anager.com] claimed to have the first industrial safety rap song [myspace.com]. Maybe you'll like it, but I was not impressed.

ytcracker

[digital bath]

If you guys like geek rap, you should check out the artist named ytcracker [ytcracker.com]. His album named "Nerd Entertainment System" is pure awesome. I'm not a huge fan of some of the later stuff, but it's very fun listening to a guy rapping about assembly opcodes, IRC, etc :)

Why rap is still so popular?

[JSlope]

Why is rap still so popular? I think it answers the 21 century carving for information, for example the same information as in main article will have doubled it's length in almost any other modern music style.

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[agentengram]

I didnt make a video but I was rapping about CERN before it was cool. Well it never will be cool. The Richest Family is a nercore band from the Bar Area that has a podcast and a blog [therichestfamily.com]. Please check out my nerdcore cut Cern Giddyup [therichestfamily.com].

AAAh my ears!

[narcberry]

Who tf is playing with the volume? Just pick an amplitude and leave it alone!

Re:AAAh my ears!

[Man On Pink Corner]

YouTube is. Somebody put LSD in the water supply in their programming department, is all I can figure.

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[waztub]

That's the work of a badly used compressor. It gets two signal inputs, and lowers one whenever the other reaches a certain volume level, basically. Someone misused it in this recording, apparently.

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[hcetSJ]

This version has better sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ [youtube.com] (and something of an explanation of the poor sound in the original).

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[Tom9729]

I noticed that too.

This song reminds me of one of the Bill Nye music videos, and I like it but this version is really hard to listen to because the volume keeps changing.

Youtube links

[Max Romantschuk]

This is not exactly new, but it's a fun little clip. Karma whoring or not, here's Youtube links in high quality [youtube.com] and standard quality [youtube.com].

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[the_denman]

They also have a web page with the mp3 of the rap and a link to vimeo that has a down loadable video
https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html

Re:Youtube links

[daveime]

In other news, the RIAA today sent a cease and desist notice to Slashdot for linking an mp3.

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[Hektor_Troy]

And in future news, a large contingent of nerds world wide cried out in joy as the Large Hadron Collider was turned on today.

Surprising to some people, they managed to create a miniature black hole. However, LHC lead scientists informed us that it only lasted for 16 seconds after being created inside RIAA headquaters, and completely dissapated after having absorbed it.

We were unable to reach the RIAA for comments.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a better link [vimeo.com] where the audio isn't fucked by youtube's new audio equalization.

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[Max Romantschuk]

Audio compression, actually. Which is a totally different thing. :)

Re:Youtube links

[bit01]

The LHC and CERN have a music club [web.cern.ch] e.g. The Les Horribles Cernettes [web.cern.ch], going back to 1992, sing "collider" [youtube.com]

What a beautiful moment

[Korbeau]

to see the dawn and dusk of human intelligence combined together :)

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[clang_jangle]

Page design is different at idle.slashdot.org than the other sections.

An infinite waste of time

[caywen]

Given that LHC will create a black hole that will cause a time loop, the amount of time wasted by these guys will loop over and over, meaning they have wasted an infinite amount of time with this video. That pisses me off.

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[titla1k]

Office slackers everywhere rejoice in their latest excuse!

"You see, it was really only a second or two reading /. but due to an accident gone wrong at the LHC it seems longer..."

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[Joe The Dragon]

But after a few loops people will try to kill them self to get out of it. Some one send them a groundhog.

First Nerdcore, eh?

[afabbro]

I get the impression that the submitter has never heard any MC Hawking, Monzy, Beefy, Spam Tech Crew, never visited rhymetorrents, etc...the submitted tune is actually a pretty weak and amateurish example of Nerdcore.

Re:First Nerdcore, eh?

[anomnomnomymous]

Amateurish?

At least this song gives a nice explanation of the subject at hand.

Most nerdcore just goes like "Oooh, let's include the word 'router', and base my song off it!", but doesn't educate in any way.
Therefor I think this song is what nerdcore should be about...

Better quality link

[Mascot]

After YouTube started mangling the audio it made it pretty useless for this sort of thing. Try Vimeo instead http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471 [vimeo.com]

Nerdcore

[Per Wigren]

They sure seem to know all about math [youtube.com].

Let's hope these black holes won't kill -9 [youtube.com] us all. :(

Educational, but no Cernettes

[mcvos]

The lyrics are very educational, but the Cernettes are far better.

What happened to the Cernettes anyway? And why don't they make a music video about this?

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[Saunalainen]

Google is your friend [google.com]

Public education

[DSwitz]

could learn a lot from CERN. I think I just learned more in 5 minutes than I did in high school.

Why is this here?

[consonant]

I would've thought this is a valid candidate for science.slashdot.org. Only stuff from Reuters' Oddly Enough and the like get into idle.slashdot.org

How to get it into your iPod

[titten]

Here it is: http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2008/08/whos-down-with-lhc-yeah-you-know-me.html [blogspot.com]

Another interessting LHC video

[fred9653]

A walk through the CMS cavern: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoMhD24wzbg [youtube.com]

I like this movie a lot more...

[egnop]

http://www.youtube.com/v/BXzugu39pKM&hl=en&fs=1 [youtube.com]

Sesame Street for graduate students

[EWAdams]

If they can use music to teach little kids the alphabet, why not use it to teach science? This kind of thing might actually make a difference in high school.

Eh..

[Missing_dc]

Eh.. not as good as BabyCakes singing "Be Aggressive"

And in other news...

[SnowDog74]

MC Hawking [mchawking.com] files a lawsuit for character infringement.

Dr. Spatso?

[ROBOKATZ]

I think you mean Dr. Sbaitso [uncyclopedia.org].

LHC? THC?

[mikeraz]

Rap? When''s the reggae version coming out?

Dr. SBAITSO

[Nwallins]

Dr. Sbaitso was the text-to-speech software package that came with early-mid 90s SoundBlaster software. I have to wonder if "Dr. Spatzo" is simply a phonetic corruption of such.

I need to stop playing WoW

[The Insane One]

An example of a through process...

I read the title.

"Why would nerds rap in the first place?"

They already aren't cool so maybe it was contamination of the water supply.

"And why would they be rapping about Light's Hope Chapel?"

LOL WAT?

And no, I will NOT turn in my geek badge.

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[rootooftheworld]

I'm not asking you, I'm just gonna take it.

new ringtone

[Anonymous Coward]

This is totally bumping my Peter Howell and Ron Grainer Doctor Who themes from my list of ringtones.

Cernettes way better

[Lawrence_Bird]

The original CERN group:

the Cernettes [youtube.com]

How did they get him??

[Call Me Black Cloud]

You'd think Stephen Hawking would be really busy, but somehow they got him to do the opening and closing voiceover. Glad to see he's got time for some fun too.

wtf?

[thephydes]

All the nerds waxing lyrical about the LHC rap, but "I shall derive" had shit poured on it. Jeez! ..... both accurate, both crap musically, both fun, both on youtube, both enjoyed by my students ... but one gets accolades and one gets dumped. Do I detect some intellectual elitism creeping in? NO of course not this is Slashdot after all.

Disturbing yet Liberating the Revelation Coming

[FromTheAir]

As the video states we are in for a new understanding. Some may have already figured out what that means and it is disturbing because it clashes with the classical perception of our reality and our self. Liberating because of the new freedoms and capability that are unleashed. Read on http://godparticle.net/ [godparticle.net]