Large Hadron Rap

Large Hadron Rap is a physics rap about the CERN laboratory's Large Hadron Collider particle collider experiment. The educational rap was written by CERN science writer and Michigan State University graduate Kate McAlpine. Large Hadron Rap has been hugely successful on YouTube and is receiving praise for its scientific accuracy.Telegraph UK: Rap About Science Experiment is YouTube Hit

CERN science writer Kate McAlpine explains the purpose and science behind the Large Hadron Collider experiment set to take place in Geneva, Switzerland on September 10, 2008. In the video, McAlpine and co-workers, who got permission to film the video at the at the site of the experiment, dance around wearing lab coats as they rap about discovering the scientific secrets of the big bang theory.

• 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,—excerpt from Large Haldron Rap written by Kate McAlpine.Michigan State University: Large Hadron Rap Lyrics