That was shockingly good. I was all set to laugh at its badness, but I ended up impressed at what a good medium rap is when the lyrics are intelligent. I'm having a total "Square One" flashback. ^_^
But I feel kinda ashamed, because every time I hear about these things I think of "Angels and Demons". ... and then, the guy falls out of a helicopter... why Dan Brown, why!
Square One Television was a show I watched as a kid -- it uses sketch comedy to teach math. One of my favorite parts was the music videos for songs about math-related concepts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_One_Television
"Angels and Demons" is a novel by Dan Brown, the same guy who wrote "The DaVinci Code". In it, antimatter was stolen out of the Large Hadron Collider as some kind of doomsday plot, and the protagonist has to recover it with the help of a (attractive female, of course) nuclear physicist. The book both better and worse than The Davinci Code -- it's over-dramatic, but fun and interesting, for most of the book -- and then near the end it just jumps the shark (right around when the protagonist falls out of a helicopter and somehow is practically unhurt.)
Some sort of tube with a force (gravity? electrical? I don't remember) field in it that kept the antimatter suspended in a vacuum. The tube only had enough power to keep it suspended for 24 hours or something like that, though, so there was the requisite race against time. You could check out the book from a library. It's not a hard read, and it's really fun even though it's really bad (or maybe in part because it's bad).
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But I feel kinda ashamed, because every time I hear about these things I think of "Angels and Demons". ... and then, the guy falls out of a helicopter... why Dan Brown, why!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_One_Television
"Angels and Demons" is a novel by Dan Brown, the same guy who wrote "The DaVinci Code". In it, antimatter was stolen out of the Large Hadron Collider as some kind of doomsday plot, and the protagonist has to recover it with the help of a (attractive female, of course) nuclear physicist. The book both better and worse than The Davinci Code -- it's over-dramatic, but fun and interesting, for most of the book -- and then near the end it just jumps the shark (right around when the protagonist falls out of a helicopter and somehow is practically unhurt.)
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How did they store the antimatter?
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You could check out the book from a library. It's not a hard read, and it's really fun even though it's really bad (or maybe in part because it's bad).
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