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Thursday, January 8, 2009

confused about the large hadron collider? this rap video explains it all

built over 14 years, costing about 5 billion euros, so large that it spans two countries - the is quite a feat of human engineering. i mean, it might even !

the power switch will be turned on in september… but what does it actually DO? and WHY?

naturally, there’s a rap video that explains everything.

the independent has an 23 year old kate macalpine, and while the tune is pretty accurate, she admits the video got one thing wrong:

The dancing and rapping segments were filmed on location at the lab, in the LHC’s tunnels and the cavernous underground halls that contain the detectors, the “eyes” of the machine that look at the fallout of particle collisions.

“We got some strange looks. I mean you get a strange look just walking around CERN in a lab coat,” says McAlpine. “Nobody wears lab coats.”

its goofy, somewhat cliche, but fun and informative.





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Posted by gary tijuana on August 29, 2008

  • Tim said,

    i feel like there’s a really solid hiero-style hook at 1:34. otherwise I find it a little overproduced, and i’m still slightly unclear about the large hadron collider.

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