CERN Rap

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Look up CERN Rap on Youtube. The staff at CERN (and Stephen Hawking) did a rap explaining the Large Hadron Collider: I found it pretty amusing.
 

DeletedUser14280

Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground
Designed with mind to send protons around:
 

DeletedUser

: A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France
36 (62?) nations contribute to scientific advance:
 

DeletedUser14280

Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride
‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide:
 

DeletedUser

:And all that energy packed in that tiny bit of room
becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum
And then:

Darn, whoever posts next gets one of the best parts.
 

DeletedUser14280

LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone,
ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions,
CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind,
They’re looking for whatever new particles they can find.
The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead,
And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.
 
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