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Kate McAlpine - Large Hadron Rap (LHC Rap) lyrics
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Twenty-seven kilometers
of tunnel underground,
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
particle 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 conservation
of energy,
and the particles appear
clear as can be
You see particles flyin'
in jets they spray,
but you notice there ain't nothin'
goin' the other way.
You say, "My law has just
been violated!
That don't make sense!
There's gotta be another
particle to make this balance!"
And it might be dark matter
and for the 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 anti-particle
of any shelf.
Cuz when it meets
its normal twin,
they both annihilate.
Matte 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 this back
to when the universe starts:
the Big Bang.
Back when all the
matter exploded,
But the amount of antimatter
was somehow eroded!
Because when we look around
we see that matter abounds,
but the antimatter's nowhere
to be found.
That's why....
LHCb sees where
the antimatter's gone
ALICE looks at collisions
of lead ions.
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,
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 ---(!)
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.
They're lookin' 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 the 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 live in just three,
but maybe there are 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...
LHCb sees where
the antimatter's gone
ALICE looks at collisions
of lead ions.
They're lookin' 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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