For those of you physics and cosmology enthusiasts who are into learning through alternative methods (or you’re just someone who likes some clever music and lyrics), you’ve got to check out the Large Hadron Rap video on YouTube. Of course, that’s if you aren’t one of the more than 1.5 million people who’ve viewed it already.
The nearly 5-minute scientific rap goes to the credit of Kate MacAlpine, a 23-year-old American trainee at CERN. She wrote lyrics explaining the goals of the Large Hadron Collider and how it works on her bus rides to and from work, before putting them to music and producing a music video around CERN’s headquarters along the Franco-Swiss border.
The video is funny, informative, and entertaining — a great way to learn about the particle accelerator that passed its first test September 10. MacAlpine says she wants to be a science writer, and from her work with this rap, I would say she has a promising future.
Read "Astronomy previews the Large Hadron Collider's big day" to learn more about what scientists hope to learn from the LHC.