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Large Hadron Rap

Twenty-seven kilometers of tunnel underground,

designed with mind to send protons around

a circle that crosses through Swtizerland and France.

Sixty nations contribute to scientific advance.

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 such a tiny bit of room

becomes mass particles created from the vacuum

And then....

LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone

ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions

CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind:

They're looking for whatever new particles they can find

The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead,

and the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

We see asteroids and planets stars galore

We know a black hole resides at each galaxy's core.

But even all that matter cannot explain what holds

all these stars together something else remains.

This dark matter interacts only through gravity

And how do you catch a particle there's no way to see?

take it back to consevation of energy,

and the particles appear clear as can be

You see particles flyin' in jets they spray,

but you notice there ain't nothin' goin' the other way.

You say, "My law has just been violated!

That don't make sense!

There's gotta be another particle to make this balance!"

And it might be dark matter and for the first time,

we catch a glimpse of what must fill

most of the known 'Verse

Because...

LHCb sees where the antimatter's gone

ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions.

CMS and ATLAS are two of a kind

They're looking for whatever new particles they can find.

Antimatter is sort of like matter's evil twin.

Because except for charge and handedness of spin,

they're the same for a particle and its anti-self,

but you can't store an anti-particle of any shelf.

Cuz when it meets its normal twin, they both annihilate.

Matter turns to energy, and then, it dissipates.

When matter is created from energy,

which is exactly what they'll do in the LHC,

you get matter and antimatter in equalparts,

and they try to take this back to when the universe starts: