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Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC

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Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tue Aug 12, 2008 01:31 AM
from the rock-you-in-the-head dept.
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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  • That rocks! (Score:5, Interesting)

    by clang_jangle (975789) * on Tuesday August 12, @01:44AM (#24564451)
    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.

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

      • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

        by clang_jangle (975789) *
        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! (Score:5, Insightful)

          by Gromius (677157) on Tuesday August 12, @03:52AM (#24564967)
          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 :)

          • Re:That rocks! (Score:5, Funny)

            by should_be_linear (779431) on Tuesday August 12, @05:44AM (#24565463)
            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?"

            • Re: (Score:3, Interesting)

              by Gromius (677157)
              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.

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

  • Youtube links (Score:5, Informative)

    by Max Romantschuk (132276) <max@romantschuk.fi> on Tuesday August 12, @01:45AM (#24564461) Homepage

    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].

    • Re:Youtube links (Score:4, Informative)

      by bit01 (644603) on Tuesday August 12, @06:30AM (#24565737)

      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]

      • Re:Youtube links (Score:5, Funny)

        by daveime (1253762) on Tuesday August 12, @02:00AM (#24564535)
        In other news, the RIAA today sent a cease and desist notice to Slashdot for linking an mp3.

        • 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.

  • An infinite waste of time (Score:5, Funny)

    by caywen (942955) on Tuesday August 12, @02:14AM (#24564601)
    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.

  • First Nerdcore, eh? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by afabbro (33948) on Tuesday August 12, @02:26AM (#24564653)
    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? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by anomnomnomymous (1321267) on Tuesday August 12, @03:32AM (#24564885)
      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 (Score:4, Informative)

    by Mascot (120795) on Tuesday August 12, @02:32AM (#24564675)

    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]

  • Public education (Score:3, Insightful)

    by DSwitz (1343055) on Tuesday August 12, @03:03AM (#24564795)
    could learn a lot from CERN. I think I just learned more in 5 minutes than I did in high school.

  • Sesame Street for graduate students (Score:3, Interesting)

    by EWAdams (953502) on Tuesday August 12, @07:21AM (#24565989)

    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.

  • I need to stop playing WoW (Score:3, Funny)

    by The Insane One (25793) on Tuesday August 12, @01:03PM (#24570853)
    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.

  • How did they get him?? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Call Me Black Cloud (616282) on Tuesday August 12, @03:50PM (#24573809)

    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.

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