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Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rock-you-in-the-head dept.

Engadget has pointed out a small band of people even we can consider nerdy that decided to cut loose and demo CERN's fancy new toy, the Large Hadron Collider. The resulting music video is certainly enough to "rock you in the head," and maybe even enough to cause a rip in space-time. Between Alpinekat and Dr Spatzo, I think my iPod just got a new entry.

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  1. Re:Already on Slashdot? by jo42 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yo, Kidz in da hood, "rap" is 3/4s of "crap".

  2. That rocks! by clang_jangle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I love geek rock, and that one really does rock! That lead rapper is awesome, and the lyrics are simply fantastic. The vid itself is quite cool as well.

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    1. Re:That rocks! by ThePromenader · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Okay, the scientists dancing are tragically white, but the lyrics and graphics rock - even grade-schoolers would 'get it'. This should be teaching material.

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    2. Re:That rocks! by Gromius · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes the coolest and most impressive thing about it in my opinion is that it is 99% scientifically accurate and condenses the science into a pretty reasonable and semi complete explanation without losing too much. The only artistic liberty I spotted is that it claims we should spot the Higgs boson straight away which is wishful thinking :)

    3. Re:That rocks! by mattcasters · · Score: 4, Funny

      Eminem is dead, he's locked in my basement! (Ha-ha!)

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    4. Re:That rocks! by should_be_linear · · Score: 4, Funny

      The only artistic liberty I spotted is that it claims we should spot the Higgs boson straight away which is wishful thinking

      They should yell to that machine: "Will the real Higgs boson please stand up?"

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  3. Youtube links by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is not exactly new, but it's a fun little clip. Karma whoring or not, here's Youtube links in high quality and standard quality.

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    1. Re:Youtube links by daveime · · Score: 4, Funny

      In other news, the RIAA today sent a cease and desist notice to Slashdot for linking an mp3.

    2. Re:Youtube links by bit01 · · Score: 3, Informative

      The LHC and CERN have a music club e.g. The Les Horribles Cernettes, going back to 1992, sing "collider"

  4. Re:AAAh my ears! by Man+On+Pink+Corner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    YouTube is. Somebody put LSD in the water supply in their programming department, is all I can figure.

  5. An infinite waste of time by caywen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given that LHC will create a black hole that will cause a time loop, the amount of time wasted by these guys will loop over and over, meaning they have wasted an infinite amount of time with this video. That pisses me off.

  6. First Nerdcore, eh? by afabbro · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I get the impression that the submitter has never heard any MC Hawking, Monzy, Beefy, Spam Tech Crew, never visited rhymetorrents, etc...the submitted tune is actually a pretty weak and amateurish example of Nerdcore.

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    1. Re:First Nerdcore, eh? by anomnomnomymous · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Amateurish?

      At least this song gives a nice explanation of the subject at hand.

      Most nerdcore just goes like "Oooh, let's include the word 'router', and base my song off it!", but doesn't educate in any way.
      Therefor I think this song is what nerdcore should be about...

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  7. Better quality link by Mascot · · Score: 3, Informative

    After YouTube started mangling the audio it made it pretty useless for this sort of thing. Try Vimeo instead http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471

  8. Public education by DSwitz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    could learn a lot from CERN. I think I just learned more in 5 minutes than I did in high school.

  9. I need to stop playing WoW by The+Insane+One · · Score: 3, Funny

    An example of a through process...

    I read the title.

    "Why would nerds rap in the first place?"

    They already aren't cool so maybe it was contamination of the water supply.

    "And why would they be rapping about Light's Hope Chapel?"

    LOL WAT?

    And no, I will NOT turn in my geek badge.