Celebrate The Launching of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a Cool Physics Rap

Written and performed by 23-year-old Kate McAlpine, who works in the Press office at the CERN laboratory in Switzerland, the video features Kate and two background dancers bopping about in lab coats.

Along way from rap’s usual subjects of violence and crime, the rap focuses on the science of high-energy particle physics.

Onesection goes: ‘Two beams of protons/ swing ’round./ Through the ring they ride/’til in the hearts of the detectors/they’re made to collide!/ And all that energy packed/ in that tiny room/ becomes mass,/ particles created from the vacuum.’

A CERN spokesman said: ‘We love the rap and the science is spot on.’