CERN rap video about the Large Hadron Collider creates a black hole of awesomeness
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted August 8th 2008 3:29PM
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Oh, and sorry for the two typos. Should read:
"...about *a* Large Hadron Collider..."
"...so *it's* all cool..."
Whatever.
engadget's getting a little slow with the news. saw this like a week ago on neatorama.
Fly! Anti-RAP at http://www.lhcfacts.org
Is this the video they use to train new employees?
Jungle beats r us. Chimp muzik for the scientists.
As a hip-hop artist myself, I have to say the lyrics are pretty great. The main problem is that she locks herself into a simplistic cadence that repeats for nearly the entire song.
For a cool song in the vein (though infinitely less informed), check out "Biology 101" from the classic Dr. Octagonecologyst album!
I enjoyed the gleeful goofiness of this immensely, and look forward to the impending internet remixes.
Get at me, AlpineKat!
Just wanted to tell Joshua Topolsky that a moebius strip is not "a rip in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop"..it's a never ending loop, this is because it is a one sided surface.
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ROFL!
PS That was a couple of months late for my physics exam... damn...
Its the top 1% of our population that makes it possible for the rest of our worthless asses to enjoy things like Engadget. Thank you geeks!
This was Ghetto Fabulous! For those of you "Hatin on it", sorry if it was above your head ;)
Very educational and fun. It was very entertaining and will teach both adults and children what this whole experiment is about.
I still don't get this whole anti-matter thing though. Study of anti-matter just seems oxymoronic too me. If they exist in the same space they will annihilate each other yet matter is space. Interesting too me.
Then again I am pretty fucking smart and one of the smartest. Do a google search of some of my intellectual contributions.
That was educational and not as awkward as i thought it would be, but i suppose after the whole Microsoft Bruce Springsteen on acid video i suppose anything looks professional.
oh yeah! hip hop nerds in da house! :P
quite funny stuff...
Geek-hop.
I have only one thing to say : Loldilocks Maximus
Most expensive Rap Video ever to be.
Better quality link here without YouTube screwing up the audio...
http://www.vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471
With rap skills like that... we're doomed...
It certainly beats school house rock
Here's your all-time idiot award. Congratulations.
All I can say about this is, science shouldn't risk everyone else's life for it because they are willing to risk theirs.
If there was a gun with 20 billion barrels and 1 barrel had a bullet, would you point it to your head? Maybe,
if you think that in one of the other barrels contains the meaning of the universe
How about pointing that gun at an a-bomb capable of destoying the earth...
Sounds like a slim chance... how about keep pulling the trigger until either the meaning of the universe or the bullet comes out...
seems more likely
Or how about finding a way of removing that bullet first before pointing that gun at anything.
Or maybe the bullet is the meaning of the universe, but the environment in which it's about to impact is not capable of containing it...
Food for thought.
PS. The LHC black hole theory was brought up by a scientific person, not some ignorant random.
8 hours x 200 work days/year x 1200 pulls/hour = 1,920,000 pulls/year
Keep pulling that trigger, you should get in at least at least 80 million before you die. Which is 4 percent of 2 billion.
You have no quantitative idea of what you're talking about. Which is why people ignore you on scientific issues.
Straight outta Bill Nye the Science Guy =)
That sucked. Thanks, Engadget, for a new kind of Rickrolling in which you point us to a total piece of crap!
Can anyone confirm whether or not that was actually MC Hawking?
Cute! Assholes at CERN think that they can take risks that could annihilate the planet, in order to answer theoretical questions that will only be weaponized in the shortest possible time. Why aren't they working on sustainability for THIS world rather than taking chances like this? And making a cute little song about it. I'm disgusted.
That's the spirit! Back to the caves! To safety and security and sooty, carbon-belching wood fires! Wait, scratch that last part. To safety and security and hungry bears fought off with pointed sticks. No wait, that's not it either.
Man's technology has exceeded his grasp. - 'The World is not Enough'
Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena.
Particle physicists have run out of ideas and are at a dead end forcing them to take reckless chances with more and more powerful and costly machines to create new and never-seen-before, unstable and unknown matter while Astrophysicists, on the other hand, are advancing science and knowledge on a daily basis making new discoveries in these same areas by observing the universe, not experimenting with it and with your life.
The LHC is a dangerous gamble as CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown."
The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing' you could not be more wrong. Some people think similarly about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the CERN quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "...as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. Reason and common sense will tell you that the risks far outweigh any potential(as CERN physicists themselves say) benefits.
This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out."
Find out more about that "stuff" below;
http://www.SaneScience.org/
http://www.LHCFacts.org
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
Scott Aaronson is very clever.
Dr. Rossler estimates that the probability of micro black hole creating might be in the 10% to 16%, and if created then 50 months to 50 years would be required for a micro black hole to destroy Earth.
Dr. Rossler's plea to the world for an emergency safety meeting is posted at http://www.lchfacts.org.
"A nightmarish situation, that can still be hoped to be averted in time through communication within the scientific community, is drawn attention to. Only a few weeks remain to find out whether the danger is real or nothing but a mirage. After this time window is closed, it will take years until we know whether or not we are doomed. The story line has all the features of a best-selling novel. The reader is asked to contribute constructively."
Quote from Dr. Otto E. Rossler, Professor Theoretical Biochemist, visiting Professor of Theoretical Physics, inventor of the Rossler Attractor, founder of Endophysics, winner of the 2003 Chaos Award of the University of Liege and the 2003 Rene Descartes Award.
Professor Rosslers latest interview may be found at http://www.scientificblogging.com/big_science_gambles/professor_rossler_takes_on_the_lhc
Man's technology has exceeded his grasp. - 'The World is not Enough'
Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed 'Higgs Boson'(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN) new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world's most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena.
Particle physicists have run out of ideas and are at a dead end forcing them to take reckless chances with more and more powerful and costly machines to create new and never-seen-before, unstable and unknown matter while Astrophysicists, on the other hand, are advancing science and knowledge on a daily basis making new discoveries in these same areas by observing the universe, not experimenting with it and with your life.
The LHC is a dangerous gamble as CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, 'The Six Billion Dollar Experiment', incredibly admits quote, "Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don't know what we're doing." And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, "the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown."
The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states: "There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,..." Again, this is because they truly don't know what's going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don't understand to obtain results they can't comprehend. If you think like most people do that 'They must know what they're doing' you could not be more wrong. Some people think similarly about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: "A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals." The second part of the CERN quote reads "...but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,..." A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads "...as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe." These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn't a particle physicist alive who wouldn't gladly trade his life to glimpse the "God particle", and sacrifice the rest of us with him. Reason and common sense will tell you that the risks far outweigh any potential(as CERN physicists themselves say) benefits.
This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this "science" up: "That's the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out."
Find out more about that "stuff" below;
http://www.SaneScience.org/
http://www.LHCFacts.org
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
am I the only one who saw the tunnels and was immediately reminded of sewer shark? lol
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/372/sewershark3zm9.jpg
btw, anyone remember how that one ends?
:P
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=Gur-4Nw7BV8
fantastic
That is f**king pathetic.
Wow, Amazing! Very Informative. Excellent!
Now I know what to show a scientifically challenge friend to tell him about LHC.
-tears-
Masterpiece..
Oh so thats what theve been up to fir the last half a century LOL
glad to b alive
but there not even colliding today so y was today ment to b doomsday : /
vry confussed LMAO
ied always wanted to know what it was like to stick my head between my legs and kiss my ass goodbye ?
Or is this just a good waste of tax payers dollers?
Most of the people I spoke to, don"t know what I am talking about.
Some of them work in banks! Jim.
most of the people that I spoke to today, are not up to date on the CERN project.
I made sure to tell them of the really cool Rap on science, that I liked very much.
That clever Rap, may cause some young people to take another look at Science.
I am retired, so I have time to study this stuff! James