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LHC-Themed T-Shirts Commemorate the Non-Destruction of Earth

Lauren Davis — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:00:51 PDT

Now that the Large Hadron Collider has been switched on and the world remains more or less intact, Hadron-mania has gripped the Internet. LHC enthusiasts check the status of Earth's destruction, view Collider porn, and, of course, commemorate the event itself with clever t-shirts. If you're looking for the perfect gift for the particle physicist in your life, consider one of these tees, which play largely on irrational fears of the LHC and the obvious implications of a certain typographical error.

My Bosons, Your Hadrons
I Survived - 09/10/2008
Go Science!
One Ring to Rule Them All
I Survived the LHC Experiment
Particle Physics Gives Me a Hadron
I'm ConCERN'd
Search for 'God Particle' Begins
Standard Model of Particle Physics
Thanks for Not Destroying the Universe

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About the Large Hadron Collider, via Rap

Ed Grabianowski — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:20:00 PDT

Science can be pretty weird, especially theoretical physics, but weirder still is watching someone rapping about the Large Hadron Collider. (That's the giant device in Switzerland that will recreate the Big Bang, among other things.) Time to recalibrate your strangeness meters - science writer Kate McAlpine and some friends filmed themselves busting various moves deep in the caverns of the LHC while Kate dropped mad verse about the collider. Check out the video, below, and find out why other colliders are just suckas.

The lyrics, plus an mp3 version, can be found here. Next time you're rollin' in your Escalade, crank up the bass and let the people know:

The protons and the lead will rock you in the head.

Image by: CERN