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Fun LHC

DId I mean Run-D.M.C.? No, really, it is not a typo, I meant Fun LHC. It's a YouTube vid, it's a phenom.

Well, what it is, is, as Bill Clinton would say, a science writer rapping, with a bunch of scientists dancing(?) on site in the background, about the new Large Hadron Collider about to go online and maybe discover the Higgs boson (which is not a bad name for a rap group) — or not — or maybe the LHC will create a black hole that will swallow the universe. Well, some are afraid of that, but probably not. It would be a funny end though — neither Eliot's bang, nor whimper, not fire nor ice as Frost postulated, but an idea that Mel Brooks might propose: a sucking sound you wouldn't believe vacuuming away this vale of tears.

This Large Hadron Collider rap, written by a clever science writer and “performed” by some of the scientists involved, is surprisingly informative.

You can go to the above link at YouTube or see it here:

Here is a link to the full text of the rap online

A snip:

We see asteroids and planets, stars galore
We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core
But even all that matter cannot explain
What holds all these stars together – something else remains
This dark matter interacts only through gravity
And how do you catch a particle there’s no way to see
Take it back to the conservation of energy
And the particles appear, clear as can be