If you think rap is all about banging hoes, crack, ****ing mother****ers up, and bragging, you obviously haven’t seen Kate McAlpine’s YouTube sensation, “Large Hadron Rap.” McAlpine, a 23-year-old Michigan State University grad student, wrote the physics rap about the Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator in the Swiss CERN Lab. It has already garnered about 500,000 hits on YouTube, and the most violent lyrics in the song involve the collision of protons.
McAlpine raps that when the collider goes into operation on Sept. 10, "the things that it discovers will rock you in the head."
… "Rap and physics are culturally miles apart," McAlpine, a science writer at CERN, wrote to the Lansing State Journal in an e-mail last week, "and I find it amusing to try and throw them together."Others, including physicists, also find it amusing.
"We love the rap, and the science is spot on," said CERN spokesman James Gillies.
McAlpine’s got some pretty sick rhymes for a white girl. Now, if only she would write some study guide raps for bio and chemistry too…
Share: 
Blog
Facebook
AIM
Digg
Reddit
Stumble It
Email
Report
What's the deal?
Subscribe
Post
Send
Hot Colleges
Featured Posts
Recent Comments
Blogroll
Comments
Kate McAlpine Drops Hot Beats About Physics
By Prada Debutante (Chief Contributor)
-------------------------------------
NEW LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
Laval, Canada, August 28, 2008
SENATOR OBAMA,
âIt is in adversityâ, I was going to say in âdarknessâ, that one recognizes true friends.
Energy of the Sixties tested, confronted by Todaysâs Energy crisis, what does Science hold for us in this field at the crossroad of the third millennium?
Each of us should express solidarity, according to his means.
My contribution, apparently futuristic, refers, Senator Obama, to an inexhaustible source of energy, which one should tame now.
In a book with limited publication, translated in English for the needs of the cause, entitled âBILL A RI And There Was Lightâ, addressed during his last American election campaign to President Bill Clinton who acknowledged having received it, I dared to tackle this subject.
Itâs like to say to you, Senator Obama, that in the exceptional circumstances in which we live today - in the point of view of energy - no exploration in the mid or long term, by the american expertise , of an additional source of energy, at the same time safe and profitable, should not be ruled out.
There is no witchcraft at all involved in all that, Mister Obama. In spite of my Haïtian ascent and my carefully phrased remarks. It is undoubtedly so when a taboo should be broken through. A taboo of magnitude, Sir, I admit it. A âscientificâ taboo, seldom encountered.
â The taboo arises as a negative categorical imperative,â affirms Roger Caillois.
It is not saying little. Especially when it is a question of adequately correcting the theory of Newton on light and colors.
However, at the dawn of the twenty first century, to denounce this taboo, to reverse it, should I say, what an asset! Moreover, at the same time the multiple taboos grow blurred which surround another phenomenon of the highest scientific range, the well known phenomenon under the abusive name of âBlack Holesâ, synthesis of light and colors. Indeed Newton, in good faith undoubtedly in his time, really reversed the interpretation of the phenomenon of light. He took the part for the whole ! So much and so well that today like yesterday, the visible appears so much more tempting. Physicists say it: âninety to ninety nine percent of the matter of the universe (Grosso Modo - said here roughly by Lucien BONNET - for more precisions see âLINKSâ or âGOOGLEâ) is made up of a dark matter, invisible, which generates, propels and surrounds the visible, like the sea surrounds the continentsâ. Scientists such as Stephen Hawking affirm it. The Hubble Telescope confirms it. But theoretical Optics is stagnant.
My intervention, here, Senator Obama, would mean that. It is possible to use another form of energy. By decoding the Black Matter.Without a play on words. Theoretically initially. While âreturning the elevator to Newtonâ - without a play on words. By the Act which consists in making an AMENDMENT TO THE LAW OF NEWTON ON LIGHT AND COLORS.
Presently, why should we take the result instead of the cause?
â Objectively and in a pragmatic way, how not focussing on the new synthesis?
Consequently, what a liberation !
At the threshold of the third millennium, let light live, invisible by synthesis, visible by analysis !
âSynthesis and analysis are two wings of the same bird, the rythm of the universeâs heartbeat, tamed inside the infinitely small having mass. Successively contracted and deployed. In the benefit of humanity.â
One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind - I also said myself - in â BILL A RI and there was light !⦠â
Unfortunate, yes, but how much a convenient Energy crisis if I dare say, which invites us to explore other avenues, other concepts and, therefore, other resources so far neglected.
Invitation to go from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. Taking advantage of the sequence of colorless and colored luminous speeds. In order to better understand the Universe. Where Law and Order prevail. Just like in Democracy !
Energetic formula with a unique character !
In the name of Science and Technology, vapor is being reverse !
A winning formula !
In The United States Of America.
By The United States Of America.
For The United States Of America and abroad !
With you today, Senator Obama, I repeat this sentence - since 1972 and 1978 - that is to say forty years old, but always, in my opinion, carrying the same message that I wish more and more positive for the years to come, in the third millennium, as I said since 1972 and on April 10, 1978, in a Letter to Doctor Carl Sagan:
âOn the cosmic scale as on the terrestrial scale, darkness or blackness forms an integral, sine qua non part, of color and light pocessâ.
Is it still broad daylight
in the shadow of the black sun?
Yours truly,
Lucien BONNET Posted 09/07/2008 11:15 AMReply