Today is mainly about listening to music, because this song is really good.

singer Howie Day has a very popular song called "Collide". The song didn't have much to do with physics, but researchers working at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) clearly have their own unique understanding of collision. In 2015, several graduate students and staff created the CERN version of "collision" based on the original song and filled it with lyrics with particle physics characteristics.

later, the singer himself saw the adapted video on Twitter, and he was so interested that he not only retweeted it immediately, but also contacted CERN to ask if he could visit them. "it's okay to come, but you have to sing this song and make a video of it," CERN said half-jokingly.

however, Howie Day really went to visit and kept his promise. He walked into the LHC, picked up his guitar and sang the collision of passion between the particles.

Let's take a look at this special music video:

in a nutshell, particles are accelerated and collided in the collider, resulting in a series of new particles. Physicists use this method to test their theory, and the Higgs boson is discovered in the same way.

the following are the lyrics, with my translation.

(I'm really not good at particle physics, so I'm not going to explain it. If there's something wrong, you're welcome to point out _ (: particle "∠) _)

ion beam begins to release

The power is on

Power on

This is our parting

this is our parting

Goodbye my baryon

Bye my baryon. Baryon refers to a composite particle consisting of three quarks (or "antibaryons" consisting of three antiquarks)

Yeah

I see you pass by

I see you pass

until we let argon and lead tungstate These are both materials used in particle detection devices)

Light up again

light up

Out of the depths of space and time

depth beyond space and time

Even the bosons cannot hide

bosons have no place to hide

momentum begins to climb

I somehow find

I feel

you and I

collide

We test their ground

We test their basis

Is there another Higgs?

is there another Higgs?

Can SUSY still be found?

can SUSY still be found?

Out of the depths of space and time

the depth of transcending space and time

Even the gluons cannot hide

gluons have nowhere to hide.

momentum begins to climb

I somehow find

I feel

You and I

you and I

Collide

collide

dark matter

double Higgs model

And Gravitons

and graviton

Out in the depths of space and time

Even the sea-quarks cannot hide

the sea quark has nowhere to hide

what will they find among the piles of debris we leave behind

?

When you and I

when you and I

Collide

collide

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When you and I

Collide

What will they find

When you and I

Collide

Video Source: CERN

Source: http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/howie-day-records-love-song-to-physics

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