Who said science can’t be fun? Certainly none of the 500,000 YouTube viewers of Kate McAlpine’s rap song about high-energy particle physics.
 
McAlpine, a 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate, became a YoutTube star for her rap song about things like the Large Hadron Collider and the 17-mile circular tunnel which hosts a particle accelerator at CERN laboratory on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland.

The rap song, an attempt to make scientific research a bit more attractive to the wide audience, anticipates the day when the $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider will begin operations - Sept. 10. Practically, the machine will collide two beams of protons moving with nearly the speed of light and see what happens. Scientists at European Organization for Nuclear Research hope to find new particles and undiscovered physical forces through this experiment.

This is the most ambitious particle-physics experiment so far.  

When asked about her rap performance about physics, McAlpine said that "rap and physics are culturally miles apart" and that’s why she finds it so amusing to mix them, The Wall Street Journal reported.

"We love the rap, and the science is spot on," said CERN spokesman James Gillies.

McAlpine filmed herself and her colleagues dancing on the beat of her rap song in the tunnels which will host the experiment. Although, Gillies was reluctant when first hearing McAlpine’s request, he was convinced when he saw the latter’s previous science rapping and the song’s lyrics.

"I think you'll find pretty close to unanimity among physicists that it's great," Gilles said.