Philosophy
Surely you remember Katie McAlpine, Large Hadron Collider rap fame. Now she has a new tune..."Rare Isotope Rap".
Dennis Overbye of The New York Times wrote:
For those who like their science with a little rhythm, the rapping science writer Katie McAlpine, a.k.a. Alpinekat, has struck again. Her previous rap explaining the physics behind the Large Hadron Collider has been viewed more than 5 million times since its debut on YouTube a year ago.
Alpinekat’s new rap (above) is about nuclear physics, the field of science that explains why the Sun shines, stars blow up and radioactive nuclei disintegrate. The rap was commissioned by Michigan State University, Ms. McAlpine's alma mater, to celebrate a $500 million laboratory that will be built there, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or F-RIB — the theory apparently being that no organization or project is complete these days without its own rap.
"Yeah, it seems to be the thing to do in accelerator physics, if you want the project taken seriously," Ms. McAlpine said jokingly in an email message from Michigan where she works as a science writer for CERN, which built the Large Hadron Collider. The dancing, which seems a little more lively here than on the LHC video, features a crew of her friends, graduate students and faculty at Michigan State, including Brad Sherrill, the associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, on eyebrows.
As the rap video explains, F-RIB will collide atomic nuclei together to produce beams of rare isotopes versions of elements that have more or less than the usual number of neutrons in their nuclei. By studying the properties of these isotopes, physicists hope to learn more about the strong nuclear force that binds quarks into protons and neutrons together and how these isotopes affect the thermonuclear evolution of stars. They also hope to use the beams as tumor killers.
Or as Alpinekat says:
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Philosophy
Katie McAlpine...remember her?
Surely you remember Katie McAlpine, Large Hadron Collider rap fame. Now she has a new tune..."Rare Isotope Rap".
Dennis Overbye of The New York Times wrote:
For those who like their science with a little rhythm, the rapping science writer Katie McAlpine, a.k.a. Alpinekat, has struck again. Her previous rap explaining the physics behind the Large Hadron Collider has been viewed more than 5 million times since its debut on YouTube a year ago.
Alpinekat’s new rap (above) is about nuclear physics, the field of science that explains why the Sun shines, stars blow up and radioactive nuclei disintegrate. The rap was commissioned by Michigan State University, Ms. McAlpine's alma mater, to celebrate a $500 million laboratory that will be built there, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or F-RIB — the theory apparently being that no organization or project is complete these days without its own rap.
"Yeah, it seems to be the thing to do in accelerator physics, if you want the project taken seriously," Ms. McAlpine said jokingly in an email message from Michigan where she works as a science writer for CERN, which built the Large Hadron Collider. The dancing, which seems a little more lively here than on the LHC video, features a crew of her friends, graduate students and faculty at Michigan State, including Brad Sherrill, the associate director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, on eyebrows.
As the rap video explains, F-RIB will collide atomic nuclei together to produce beams of rare isotopes versions of elements that have more or less than the usual number of neutrons in their nuclei. By studying the properties of these isotopes, physicists hope to learn more about the strong nuclear force that binds quarks into protons and neutrons together and how these isotopes affect the thermonuclear evolution of stars. They also hope to use the beams as tumor killers.
Or as Alpinekat says:
A more powerful machine can push the frontier.
The physicists here,
They get nuclear.
The physicists here,
They get nuclear.
Rare Isotope Rap
- Shutdown Of Last U.s. Collider
Less war participation would avoid this. "Decelerating American Physics: Panel Advises Shutdown of Last U.S. Collider" The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider is first in line for possible budget cutbacks by John Matson January 31st, 2013 Scientific American...
- Physics' Labs In A Budget Crunch
"Physics labs face fiscal fireworks" by Dan Vergano December 29th, 2012 USA TODAY Atom smashers drill down into the recesses of the innermost regions of reality. But fiscal reality is that they cost money, and some may be casualties of the federal budget...
- Synthesis Of Element #117 Achieved
"Russian Physicists Synthesize New Superheavy Element 117" by Alexandra Witze April 6th, 2010 Wired Physicists have reported synthesizing element number 117, the latest in the quest to create artificial “superheavy” elements in the laboratory. A...
- "and In This Corner...fermi National Accelerator Laboratory"
One begins to wonder if blood letting will occur? The Higgs boson [God Particle] is the prize and the race between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the LHC is on. One problem...the LHC is down for maintenance thus FermiLabs has currently an...
- Nerds/geeks Rule
Amazing! Nerds/geeks rule. 836,000 hits as of 9/3/08. "Quarks in the Hood: Particle physics rap is a Youtube hit" September 3rd, 2008 AFP Particle physicists fall into the stereotype of geek scientists -- serious, distracted and prone to wearing ties...