And so the switch has been pulled. We could find out about the very origins of the universe - or we could have triggered the collapse of the planet, if doom-mongers are to be believed. In honour of the protons which have just made their first circuit of the 27-km long tunnel under the Alps as the Large Hadron Collider was activated in the world’s largest physics experiment, here is a selection of topical tunes.
First up, bizarrely, is this, the Large Hadron Rap, devoted to explaining the ideas behind the experiment:
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Moog Cookbook – Black Hole Sun (the Soundgarden version is too obvious)
Thom Yorke - Atoms For Peace
Muse – Supermassive Black Hole
Blondie – Atomic
And let’s not forget that one of the scientists involved in the project, Brian Cox, once topped the charts with D:Ream. Here’s Things Can Only Get Better:
Any other suggestions?
9:57 AM | 10/09/2008
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