Large Hadron Rap w/o subtitles

For all you who want to add translated subtitles or your own translated rap, here is the subtitle-less video:

If you want the original beats for your recording, with or without the Hawking-style voice, Will was so kind as to put them up for your use:
http://barras.ws/rappin.html

If you want the lyrics (among other things), they're here:
https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html

Of course, add your own names to the credits, and you don't necessarily have to translate these, but please put the following credits in your video notes, wherever you upload. Thanks!

Images came from:
particlephysics.ac.uk, space.com, the Institute of Physics, NASA, Symmetry, and Marvel

The 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/~s9527813/

And 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 first LHC rapper has a day job (we agree this is a good thing) as a science writer.
http://www.katemcalpine.com

[computer voice]

Aaah yeah

I'm about to drop some particle physics into club.

The LHC is supah-dupah

High

You know what I say

Check it

[normal voice]

Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel under ground

Designed with mind to send protons around

A circle that crosses through Switzerland and France

Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance

Two beams of protons swing round, through the ring they ride

‘Til in the hearts of the detectors, they’re made to collide

And all that energy packed in such a tiny bit of room

Becomes mass, particles created from the vacuum

And then…

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.

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

You see particles flying, in jets they spray

But you notice there ain’t nothin’, goin’ the other way

You say, “My law has just been violated – it don’t make sense!

There’s gotta be another particle to make this balance.”

And it might be dark matter, and for first

Time we catch a glimpse of what must fill most of the known ‘Verse.

Because…

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.

Antimatter is sort of like matter’s evil twin

Because except for charge and handedness of spin

They’re the same for a particle and its anti-self

But you can’t store an antiparticle on any shelf

Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate

Matter turns to energy and then it dissipates

When matter is created from energy

Which is exactly what they’ll do in the LHC

You get matter and antimatter in equal parts

And they try to take that back to when the universe starts

The Big Bang – back when the matter all exploded

But the amount of antimatter was somehow eroded

Because when we look around we see that matter abounds

But antimatter’s nowhere to be found.

That’s why…

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.

The Higgs Boson – that’s the one that everybody talks about.

And it’s the one sure thing that this machine will sort out

If the Higgs exists, they ought to see it right away

And if it doesn’t, then the scientists will finally say

“There is no Higgs!  We need new physics to account for why

Things have mass.  Something in our Standard Model went awry.”

But the Higgs – I still haven’t said just what it does

They suppose that particles have mass because

There is this Higgs field that extends through all space

And some particles slow down while other particles race

Straight through like the photon – it has no mass

But something heavy like the top quark, it’s draggin’ its ass

And the Higgs is a boson that carries a force

And makes particles take orders from the field that is its source.

They’ll detect it….

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.

Now some of you may think that gravity is strong

Cuz when you fall off your bicycle it don’t take long

Until you hit the earth, and you say, “Dang, that hurt!”

But if you think that force is powerful, you’re wrong.

You see, gravity – it’s weaker than Weak

And the reason why is something many scientists seek

They think about dimensions – we just live in three

But maybe there are some others that are too small to see

It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends

Which makes it seem weaker, here on our end.

And these dimensions are “rolled up” – curled so tight

That they don’t affect you in your day to day life

But if you were as tiny as a graviton

You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on

And they'd find you...

When 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!

[computer voice]

aah yeah

Our understanding of the universe is about to change,

Thanks to the LHC collider.

Yes you see, to the E to the R to the N, comin' straight all in Geneva

Mr. B I drop them.

Alpine Cat, over and out.