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Songs From Sexy Results: Cedar Block's Dig for the Higgs and How the Quest Was Won

by IfIHadAHiFi

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LHC Intro 00:20
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I'm the particle in your collider, I'm Experimenting with consenting adults I'm an electron-spewing muon in your magnetic field And I'm anticipating sexy results I like the way our universe is expanding A Big Bang of Supersymmetry We've got enough mass to discourage collapse But not enough to trigger entropy Were you and I together in the beginning Before the Higgs assigned our properties? I like to think we were all the same back then It's my Grand Unified Theory Unlike neutrinos I am feeling a charge As we uncover our destiny I think we oughta juggernaut into the tevatron And collide at high energies, hey Let's make a play for a day when symmetry's not a cult You know we merit an experiment with sexy results
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I am Only Interested in that which is impossible And how you cut the head off a headless dragon I am Only one person But I hold the dreams Of Billions I am Only one person But I change The course of nations Collide, The atoms crash and divide Everything starts to take life And all the stars are aligned Like a million calculations Collide, The atoms crash and divide Everything starts to take life All of my prayers are replied And everything changes You never know just what you know until you know you know it You never know how an endless loop ends until you know you end it
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Strip it down to a slogan Strip it down to a rhyme Hone the message Get it in primetime Use a simple language Make it nice and neat Add some zeros To the balance sheet It depends on funding And a clear brand A great salesman Marketing demand Turn it into a jingle Create awareness. Cover it in carmel And sell the science Lets make this as simple as possible
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If I were the physicist I thought I'd be I'd be mapping out the world's new alchemy Searching for neutrinos in the sea Or analyzing data from the LHC Bravo bravo, someday we're gonna know Everything about nothing From particles to strings, we're learning everything Everything about nothing From the sidelines I can only guess We're learning more and more about less and less I wish my observing carried influence But re-writing the books requires more finesse Bravo bravo, someday we're gonna know Everything about nothing From particles to strings, we're learning everything Everything about nothing Bravo bravo, someday we're gonna know Everything about nothing From particles to strings, we're learning everything Everything about nothing Everything about nothing
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Throw Deep 03:35
Whoever said man wasn't meant to touch the face of God? We know the legend, it has only been tried once before The Tower of Babel's built on forces, leptons, quarks and hadrons After four thousand years, we can't afford to wait for thousand more After four thousand years, we can't afford to wait for thousand more Remember what Ronnie said in 1987 (Throw Deep) You've gotta throw Hail Marys to discover heaven (Throw Deep) Remember what Ronnie said in 1987 (Throw Deep) What good's the answer if you do not know the question Anything that's not forbidden's by definition mandatory Thus we're compelled to smash the atom to proclaim God's glory To slip the surly bonds of Earth man doesn't have to die Fire up the magnets and chill out 'cause this is all a ride Fire up the magnets and chill out 'cause this is all a ride I wanna solve the biggest questions I wanna split the thinnest hairs Oh Lord, to solve your biggest problems Oh Lord, to split your thinnest hairs Oh Lord, to solve your Rubik's Cube With its six hundred forty billion squares I wanna solve the biggest problems I wanna split the thinnest hairs I wanna solve a Rubik's Cube With six hundred and forty billion squares Throw your Deep Thoughts into the Earth For Life, the Universe and whatever that's worth
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I didn’t choose this life this life chose me I didn’t choose this life this life chose me I always admired people who dream big I only dream in continuous symmetries Whoo Whoo--hoo Whoo Whoo--hoo You only believe what you want to believe But that all depends on the marketing Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee I find the rules that change history I find the rules that change history Its the glory of God to conceal a thing, Its the glory of God to conceal a thing, Its the glory of God to conceal a thing, Its the glory of God to conceal a thing, But the glory of a king But the glory of a king But the glory of a king To search it out

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Six songs recorded in January 2012 for the Cedar Block show Sexy Results: Cedar Block's Dig for the Higgs and How the Quest Was Won, produced by Cedar Block and Alverno Presents. Alverno calls it "a new-fangled variety show that tells the story of one man’s love of science, the trash-talking particle accelerator that broke his heart, and the much theorized, but the we-don't-know-for-certain-it-actually-exists Higgs Boson particle that will answer the Big Question – that’s right -- Life, The Universe, Everything."

"Songs From Sexy Results" is IfIHadAHiFi's contribution to the show -- six songs about particle physics, the Higgs, and the need for science to have better marketing.

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released February 18, 2012

IfIHadAHiFi is:
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Recorded January 21-22 and mixed January 25-26 by Shane Hochstetler at Howl Street Recordings in Milwaukee, WI
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Additional vocals on "Crash & Divide" and "As Simple As Possible" by Dixie Jacobs

Cover art by Michael Marchant
"Sexy Results" lettering by Dwellephant:
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All songs written by IfIHadAHiFi © 2012 What Not Shop Music (ASCAP)

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Thanks to Brent Gohde and David Ravel for making this show happen, and thanks to the staff of Fermilab in Batavia, IL, Leon Lederman, Bill Hicks, and the makers of "The Atom Smashers" PBS documentary for all the inspiration.

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