In 2015, three graduate students made a CERN-themed parody of Howie Day’s hit song “Collide”
Howie Day saw the parody and asked to come to CERN
We said yes, but only if he covered our parody of his song
We were joking
He wasn’t
The beam is starting
The power is on
This is our parting
Goodbye my baryon
Yeah
We counter-rotate
I see you pass by
Till we make argon and lead tungstate
Light up again
Out of the depths of space and time
Even the bosons cannot hide
As the momentum starts to climb
I somehow find
you and I
Collide
The theories you know
We test their ground
and I wonder...
Is there another Higgs?
Can SUSY still be found?
Out of the depths of space and time
Even the gluons cannot hide
As the momentum starts to climb
I somehow find
you and I
Collide
Dark Matter
2HDM
And Gravitons
Out in the depths of space and time
Even the sea-quarks cannot hide
Out of the mess we leave behind
What will they find
when you and I
Collide
What will they find
when you and I
Collide
What will they find
when you and I
Collide
