Look out Jay-Z, here’s a physicist
Who says science doesn’t turn people on? Kate McAlpine is a rising star on YouTube for her rap performance -- about high-energy particle physics.
Her performance has drawn half a million views so far on YouTube.
The 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking particle accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular tunnel at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
McAlpine raps that when the $3.8-billion collider goes into operation Sept. 10, “the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.”
“Rap and physics are culturally miles apart,” McAlpine, a science writer at CERN, wrote to the Lansing State Journal in an e-mail last week, “and I find it amusing to try and throw them together.”
