Confused by LHC? Watch the Big Bang rap video
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
Are talks of protons, photons, black holes particle accelerators frying your brain today? Then sit back and watch the Large Hadron Collider rap.
The almost 5-minute long YouTube video was created by a group of young people working on the ground-breaking LHC project in Geneva's CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
CERN trainee Kate MacAlpine - rap name Alpinekat - created the video to help explain the multi-billion pound project in simple terms.
The 23 year old American says: "It had an educational purpose. I thought it might make it into a few physics classrooms and perhaps be picked by some people randomly on line."
"I did a science rap when I was working at the American Physical Society last summer, before coming to CERN.
"I wrote this on the bus on the way to and from work at CERN. Then we all got together to make the video," she says. "We all hoped it would help explain what's going on at CERN...."
The video is largely filmed in CERN's vast underground caverns beneath Geneva.
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