Symphony Of Science…

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Symphony of Science

 

I was browsing the Symphony Of Science website and thought I would put one of the songs on here. They are videos of scientists talking about “Life, the Universe and Everything” but put to music. A program called Auto-Tune is used to turn normal spoken English into sung lyrics. It is the same technology that Rebecca Black’s producer used, but in this case it is designed to give lectures on science a little more life. I love them and will probably put others here in the coming months.

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As per request, here are the lyrics to the song.

[Morgan Freeman]

So, what are we really made of?

Dig deep inside the atom

and you’ll find tiny particles

Held together by invisible forces

Everything is made up

Of tiny packets of energy

Born in cosmic furnaces

[Frank Close]

The atoms that we’re made of have

Negatively charged electrons

Whirling around a big bulky nucleus

[Michio Kaku]

The Quantum Theory

Offers a very different explanation

Of our world

[Brian Cox]

The universe is made of

Twelve particles of matter

Four forces of nature

That’s a wonderful and significant story

[Richard Feynman]

Suppose that little things

Behaved very differently

Than anything big

Nothing’s really as it seems

It’s so wonderfully different

Than anything big

The world is a dynamic mess

Of jiggling things

It’s hard to believe

[Kaku]

The quantum theory

Is so strange and bizzare

Even Einstein couldn’t get his head around it

[Cox]

In the quantum world

The world of particles

Nothing is certain

It’s a world of probabilities

(refrain)

[Feynman]

It’s very hard to imagine

All the crazy things

That things really are like

Electrons act like waves

No they don’t exactly

They act like particles

No they don’t exactly

[Stephen Hawking]

We need a theory of everything

Which is still just beyond our grasp

We need a theory of everything, perhaps

The ultimate triumph of science

(refrain)

[Feynman]

I gotta stop somewhere

I’ll leave you something to imagine