Large Hadron Rap

Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider! Links below...Apparently YouTube fixed the sound! Still, Will Barras made two options trying to get around the original problems:Other YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?p... is downloadable if you log in.There has been a lot of interest in the original mp3, lyrics, and vocals for remixing. You can find all that here:https://www.msu.edu/~mcal in9/lhc_rap/largehadron.htmlThere's also been interest in translation. You can get a subtitle-free version from Vimeo here (downloadable): http://www.vimeo.com/1730771Wi... backing track available here (with and without Hawking-style voice): http://barras.ws/rappin.htmlGo... ahead and translate, rap it, and post it! Just give us a shout-out, and it's probably a good idea to include the following credits ;-)Images came from:particlephysics.ac.uk, space.com, the Institute of Physics, NASA, Symmetry, and MarvelI forgot Einstein Online, and they called me out: http://www.einstein-online.inf... I forgot Physics World (dunno what I was thinking when I put together the extra dimensions bit). Steve Abel set me to rights (but made no demands): http://physicsworld.com/cws/ar... talented dancers doubled as camera people, with some work by Neil Dixon. Stock footage is CERN's.Will Barras is responsible for the killa beats: http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~s952... thanks to MC Hawking, who first thought of using computer-voice to bring Stephen Hawking to the world of rap :-) http://www.mchawking.com/The rapper has a day job (we agree this is a good thing) as a science writer. http://www.katemcalpine.comThe... have a lot of data to sort. 15 million GB per year, actually. Want to get involved and donate your computer's downtime? Try LHC@home: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcat...

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm
Author: alpinekat

Length: 04:49
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Tags: CERN  LHC  particle  physics  rap  

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