CERN rap video about the Large Hadron Collider creates a black hole of awesomeness

Been having a tough time figuring out just what CERN's Large Hadron Collider does? Worried that it will create a Möbius strip (a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop)? Just love to jam? Watch this CERN-sponsored rap after the break, and have your universe totally destroyed. Er, but not for real.

[Via Protein Feed]

[Derek @ Aug 8th 2008 3:32PM]

Looking forward to Weird Al's parody, which would actually be a serious rap...

[j_g_puff @ Aug 8th 2008 4:10PM]

Anyone who doesn't already know about him should check out MC Hawking. He busts more shit than an incontinent man at a chilli cook-off. His song 'entropy' is equally educational but far more dope than the slightly embarassing display above. It's on youtube, but you really should buy the album.

[Amerist @ Aug 8th 2008 5:17PM]

@ j_g_puff:

I have heard MC Hawking. At first I thought it was just a joke and then I kept hearing it on Sirius 34... Weird shit but it's funny.

[David @ Aug 8th 2008 7:16PM]

You'd think for scientists it'd be easy to level the damn audio. That thing was unbearable. MC Hawking is pretty cool tho.

[Mark @ Aug 9th 2008 6:59AM]

Another video ruined by Youtube's new audio levelling system!

It sucks so bad! When will you fix this Youtube? You're killing our audio!

[Sachin @ Aug 9th 2008 1:31PM]

right at like 3:18, is that guy masturbating?

[Jack @ Aug 11th 2008 5:13AM]

a brief history of rhyme?

[fred @ Aug 8th 2008 3:32PM]

Snoop aint got nothin on these pimps.

[Geert @ Aug 9th 2008 6:57AM]

At least they are better than the Cernettes (who also feature on the first image on the web);
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Horribles_Cernettes

[mcv @ Aug 12th 2008 2:47AM]

Very educational, but musically, they can't hold a candle to the Cernettes.

[Atanas Boev @ Sep 7th 2008 9:50AM]

actually it sounds like Grandmaster Flash.

[Atanas Boev @ Sep 7th 2008 9:50AM]

actually it sounds like Grandmaster Flash.

[Atanas Boev @ Sep 7th 2008 9:50AM]

actually it sounds like Grandmaster Flash.

[SleepingPanda @ Sep 7th 2008 9:47PM]

does it, now?

[Doug @ Aug 8th 2008 3:36PM]

THAT WAS GOOD! WEEEEE I WANT ANTI MATTER!

[torqueo @ Aug 8th 2008 3:36PM]

Wow. And I thought I was dorky. Just wow!

[Jerk Face @ Aug 9th 2008 9:08AM]

That's all I could think, lol.

That video was so full of Win, as they say.

[Christian Martin @ Aug 8th 2008 3:39PM]

It hurts us. It hurts us so much.

[Preston @ Aug 8th 2008 3:40PM]

You failed at life.

[Sharone @ Aug 8th 2008 3:40PM]

Lame and idiotic.

[CraigJ @ Aug 8th 2008 3:41PM]

Personally, I wouldn't be going around telling others about my problem, but hey, if that's how you roll.

[NHAnimator @ Aug 8th 2008 3:43PM]

I laughed. I cried. I was entertained. I was squeamish. I learnt something.

Thanks CERN-based Geeks!

[BrianB @ Aug 8th 2008 5:09PM]

I second this opinion.

[Macdelaney @ Aug 9th 2008 12:10AM]

totally agree

[Fred @ Aug 8th 2008 3:44PM]

Best headline ever.

[Francis @ Aug 8th 2008 3:47PM]

Don't click it! I got chills and had to close it.

[Minilap @ Aug 8th 2008 3:47PM]

you just wanna get lowranked, don't you?

[Lucretius @ Aug 8th 2008 6:32PM]

Either you're full of irony right now or some cock-ass hipster...either way you've just failed.

[whowhatme @ Aug 8th 2008 3:48PM]

thank you CERN rappers, now i have a perfect understanding of the higgs boson!

[MaHe @ Aug 8th 2008 4:12PM]

Hah, yeah me too. :)
I was actually quite puzzled about the whole LHC project and it's purpouse, and however this 'dorky' this song might be, it's still explained a lot of things in laymans terms and I have a lot better understanding of things now ... :)

[DooM @ Aug 8th 2008 3:48PM]

If it was about half as long it would have been the best rap ever.

[Marcus Arrillius @ Aug 10th 2008 7:12PM]

That's when YOU come out with a version speeding this up 2x.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Aug 8th 2008 3:49PM]

That was dope, yo.

[CraigJ @ Aug 8th 2008 3:51PM]

My biggest concern is that I have a canoe trip planned for September 11th. I've never canoed in anti-water before. Can it be done? Do I need an anti-matter canoe?

[paul34 @ Aug 8th 2008 4:04PM]

You could get an antimatter canoe, but I hope you never touch it =/

[sua @ Aug 8th 2008 4:53PM]

Just make sure your real canoe doesn't collide with the anti-canoe.

[KilgoreTrout @ Aug 8th 2008 5:40PM]

yes you do, and I have got one to sell you!!!

[fieldcar @ Aug 8th 2008 3:53PM]

Lol, their gangster hand symbol is the right hand rule for EMF!
http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/source/f/l/flemings%20right%20hand%20rule/source.html

[jonny @ Aug 9th 2008 2:46AM]

Am I sad that I noticed that too? I've been thinking that about rappers since we learnt about that in physics.

[RK @ Aug 8th 2008 3:55PM]

I never knew scientists could be such dorks.

[LinkDJ @ Aug 8th 2008 4:03PM]

Really? You didn't know SCIENTISTS could be DORKS?

[a ham sandwich @ Aug 8th 2008 4:03PM]

dude....seriously?!

[Reader @ Aug 8th 2008 4:15PM]

Scientists are the real Original Gangsters. Always gettin thrown in jail and shit for their theories back in the good ol' days.

[evplasmaman @ Aug 8th 2008 4:39PM]

Yeah that Bruce Edwards Ivins was one bad ass anthrax slinging mofo.

[injate @ Aug 8th 2008 4:01PM]

WOW.

[Madoc @ Aug 8th 2008 4:02PM]

Oh SNAP

[Kamokazi @ Aug 8th 2008 4:02PM]

And these are the people that are about to operate something that has a slim possibility to destroy the planet? I'm not exactly encouraged...

[Mike @ Aug 8th 2008 5:18PM]

You're kidding right?

There is absolutely ZERO possibiliby of the LHC destroying the planet. It's not a large possibility. It's not 50/50. It's not even a slim possibility. The possibility is ZERO. I'm sorry but I'm sick of hearing things like this. It's mostly the fault of the idiotic non-scientific media spreading crap that isn't true. Don't fear it simply because you don't understand it.

ZERO POSSIBILITY! I can't say that enough.

[Zach @ Aug 8th 2008 6:05PM]

Well, saying that anything has a "ZERO possibility" of anything happening is incorrect. We have no proof that massive particles don't create some unknown force that could rip apart the universe. Or, via quantum mechanics, anti mater could suddenly pop up, creating a large amount of destruction. OR... etc.

What you mean is that the chances of these things happening is so close to zero, that it can be considered as zero, but it is still genuinely non-zero.

Thank you.

[Skyride @ Aug 8th 2008 9:34PM]

Actually. Mike is in a way right. There is a chance but its incredibly small.

Although personally, Id rather we were all destroyed by our own curiosity and pursuit of knowledge than complete ignorance of global warming.

on topic.

im sorry but i just cringe at this. Im already quite familiar with LHC and what it does. But this rap simplifies all of the concepts too much for anyway to go away with even a basic understanding. The rap would have to be several days long to even start to explain this properly. Its not in anyway educational but im sure that wasen't the intention.