Particle Business: mp3 & music video
Notes: This is the song I did for Fermilab.
Lyrics:
[chorus]
Rock stars of physics, particle business
smash matter, anti-matter and witness
quarks, bottom to top
they don’t stop
“Where the Higgs at?”
Yo that’s their mark!
Go! Go! Go!
[verse 1]
Tevatron, OG atom smasher
Say Hello to CERN’s party crasher
The new ‘Lord of the Rings’ LHC hear me
This be competitive collaboration baby
Strippin’ electrons, makin ions
Of hydrogen, now pull that proton
Give it that speed we need to make
Real Science get achieved, I believe
Shock protons, Greatly accelerated
Two tera electron volts they rated
Fated to smash and get mated
Creatin’ smaller bits, energy still equated
We love collisions, Take snap shots
Till we set the right shot, learn a lot
Yo, a mad grip of events do occur
Blast fast, Data stream is a blur
Normal events–They get ignored
Higgs events–They get adored!
(Chorus)
[verse 2]
High over frontier. Wilson Hall tall
With aesthetics, it’s a science cathedral
For the people that see with math
Collider detector and massive graphs
DZero or CDF, who’s the best?
If pressed I guess who’s closest
To quench the measurement thirst
And who got their results in first
Collision detectors, Fermion collectors
This ain’t the 60s with pocket protectors
These peeps cool like super-conducted
Magnets, you know four nine ain’t frontin’
(Chorus)
To me, triple beams don’t mean
Pushin’ mad coke, Its scientists in lab coats
So you ready for insight twilight or limelight?
Research in basic science, I’ll fight
Who’s side you with? R&D dollars?
Or pork spending for anyone who hollas?
Brain drain. No technology policy
Ballot box for better decisions in D.C.
Rap Carl Sagan over new Vangelis Keys
Science cutter clowns get smacked down please
I’m trippin’ at students slippin’ in
Test scores, Against the world they’re dippin’
Let’s be liftin’, Positive like positrons
Before we ask where we gone wrong
Down with MTV, forget what you heard
Get lost in Cosmos and Mister Wizard
“Somewhere… something incredible is waiting to be learned” – Carl Sagan
