Large Hadron Collider, Rap, and Pizza

You may have heard some of the news lately about the large hadron collider, a piece of machinery that smashes particles into each other by rocketing them around a 17-mile loop built at the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. You may have also heard that it was supposed to cause the end of the world by creating a rogue black hole "that will engulf the planet or produce “quantum strangelets” transforming the Earth into a dead lump of “strange matter”."

So far though, that hasn't happened. And in fact, besides for proving or disproving the standard model of particle physics, serious eats has discovered that the LHC could moonlight as the world's biggest microwave, able to defrost a frozen pizza in, oh, about 30 billionths of a second.

My favorite piece of silliness related to the LHC though is the inexplicably catchy "Large Hadron Rap", featuring a cameo by my favorite rapper who also holds a PhD in theoretical physics, MC Hawking. Give it a listen below.