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The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known by its French acronym Cern) is to record a song dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The LHC is the vast physics experiment built in a 27km-long underground tunnel, which runs in a circle under the French-Swiss border.
The ditty written by clinical psychologist Danuta Orlowska has been set to the tune of the Hippopotamus song by Flanders and Swann and its chorus celebrates the Higgs boson - a sub-atomic particle that the LHC is designed to detect:
"Higgs, Higgs glorious Higgs," the tune goes, "the theory told them these thingamijigs, were so fundamental."
But this isn't Cern's first ode to particle physics. Staff members once wrote a rap song that was praised for its scientific accuracy - if little else.
"You see particles flying, in jets they spray. But you notice there ain't nothin', goin' the other way," they rap.
"You say: 'My law has just been violated - it don't make sense! There's gotta be another particle to make this balance'."
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, also released a rap song this year.
"Rocket Experience", recorded with some help from rap artist Snoop Dogg, commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
Crash landing?
In it, Buzz intones, "I am the space man", adding: "It's time to venture far, let's take a trip to Mars. Our destiny is to the stars."
The song was intended to convey the excitement of the Apollo era to a younger generation. But Andrew Harrison, associate editor of music magazine Word, is doubtful:
"I don't think we can call that a giant leap for hip-hop," he told BBC News. But he understands why Buzz and others turn to music in an attempt to convey the wonder of science.
"Scientists can feel a little unappreciated, in that there's this incredible stuff that they're discovering that is difficult to bring to popular attention. But what it does prove is that music is difficult," says Mr Harrison.
There are even songs dedicated to palaeontological discoveries. Jonathan Mann wrote a song about the discovery of a 4.4 million-year-old human-like creature called Ardipithecus ramidus, which might be a human ancestor.
The chorus goes: "Oh! Ardipithecus ramidus, Ardipithecus ramidus, She's related to all of us!"
Scientists are not just using music to inform the public, but also - in time-honoured fashion - to campaign.
'Don't take our dish'
The tune "Don't go messing with our Telescope" was released last year by The Astronomers to fight the closure of the famous Jodrell Bank Telescope in Cheshire, UK.
"And every day we live in hope, don't go messing with our telescope, don't take our dish, you'll leave a black hole," the verse implores.
A composition in an advert by Bio-Rad Laboratories set what was regarded as a high water mark in science music.
The video features a well-produced parody of "We are the World" with cameos from Willy Nelson, Bob Dylan and Bee Gees sound-alikes.
It is dedicated to a technique - called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) - which enables researchers to make millions of copies of short sequences of genetic material.
It has transformed molecular biology. So, argue the scientists, why not celebrate science with the same gusto as one might celebrate sport in a football song?
"PCR when you need to detect mutation (detect mutation), PCR when you need to recombine (recombine), PCR when you need to find out who the daddy is (who's your daddy?), PCR when you need to solve a crime (solve a crime)," goes the refrain.
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Oh god. I know there gonna do something like "Praise the LHC" or some crazy shit like that.
Monolith.
[quote=banned user;19225061]monolith.[/quote]
all glory to the large hadron collider!
When will this song be released?
Why does CERN have a choir.
hey guis nerdcore is popular how about SCIENCECORE :c00l:
Why does CERN have a Large Hadron Collider when did they get this?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM[/media]
Comes to mind.
no :/
(automerge)
Hey baby wanna give all your glory to my large HLC?
I guess it's better than a glee club.
This has to be the most random shit sinc[b]ALL GLORY TO THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER[/b]
That's reeeeeaaallllyyyy fucking nerdy, I have to say
How long do you think it's gonna be til they offer human sacrifices?
[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;19225391]That's reeeeeaaallllyyyy fucking nerdy, I have to say
How long do you think it's gonna be [B]til they offer human sacrifices[/B]?[/QUOTE]
I think that's the plan if, I mean, when, it breaks down again.
You know, I wonder if we ever wipe ourselves out, and somehow another intelligent life reforms on Earth, if they will find the LHC and wonder about it like we wondered about Stonehenge.
Oh wow, I do believe that is as nerdy as yo[B]ALL GLORY TO THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER[/B]
I think the Large Hadron Collider exposed such incredible and incomprehensible knowledge to the scientist, they turned mad and is to revere the LHC as their new God.
I knew this LHC was a bad idea...
[QUOTE=lolwutdude;19225770]I think the Large Hadron Collider exposed such incredible and incomprehensible knowledge to the scientist, they turned mad and is to revere the LHC as their new God.
I knew this LHC was a bad idea...[/QUOTE]:cthulhu:
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;19225314]hey guis nerdcore is popular how about SCIENCECORE :c00l:[/QUOTE]
There's a black metal band called Otargos that has songs about quantum physics.
Just putting this here.
Well, on a positive side, the Zone will be in the middle of easily accessible Europe, rather than Ukraine.
At least Freedom would finally stop whining about wanting to let people in.
All hail to Science, Our Divine Way, The Great Reality which manifests in our Understanding, our Machines.
Glory be to the glory of Science alone, and that which is Unknown is that which should be Saught.
That Truth and his power shall determine which should be wrong be purged, and is unclean.
Book of Method, Psalm 4:12
[QUOTE=ketchup;19225690]You know, I wonder if we ever wipe ourselves out, and somehow another intelligent life reforms on Earth, if they will find the LHC and wonder about it like we wondered about Stonehenge.[/QUOTE]
Except stonehenge doesn't collide particles to form black holes
[b][i]OR DOES IT[/b][/i] :tinfoil:
Since the LHC hasn't actually worked yet I predict it will finally work at full charge on December, 22, 2012
Ooh! Ooh! Where can I sign up? I can do an awesome keyboard solo.
Maybe they're singing to try and appease the future gods to stop fucking their shit up.
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, also released a rap song this year.
"Rocket Experience", recorded with some help from rap artist Snoop Dogg, commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon.
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