The Particle Physics Song
August 26, 2010 | 9:41 am
“I’m watching something very strange right now,” a colleague texted from the CERN Control Center on Feb. 3.
Members of the CERN choir, all in black, had gathered there to perform their rendition of a song that a non-physicist had submitted to CERN’s monthly publication.
Danuta Orlowska, a clinical psychologist with Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London, wrote “The Particle Physics Song,” an ode to the Higgs boson to be sung to the tune of “The Hippopotamus Song” by British comedians Michael Flanders and Donald Swann.
Though singing at a particle physics laboratory might seem strange, the sight should come as little surprise to CERN afficianados familiar with this video or this one.
This week CERN posted a video of the choir’s performance of “The Particle Physics Song” to the CERNTV YouTube site. Enjoy!
Kathryn Grim
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3 Comments »
August 26th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
Very Lovely! I would like to visit CERN next spring!
September 7th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
As a professional theatre director for more than 35 years, and for some reason, a person fascinated by particle physics and cosmology, I found this song and its performance to be: Infinitely fabulous!!
Thanks and Congratulations to all involved.
October 3rd, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Is it a science?
They should work more with data to find Higs. But they sing songs.
It is clear that SM will have great problems without Higs like CERN will have problems without results and evidence of its existence BUT it is not a reason to sing…