Video éxito en YouTube: El bosón de Higgs, cantado a capela

La canción está dedicada a la partícula de Dios, y parodia a 'Rolling in the deep', una de las composiciones de Adele, la cantante británica  ganadora de ocho premios Grammy.

Algunas de las estrofas elogian el triunfo de los físicos que hace dos meses declararon haber detectado el bosón de Higgs y las décadas de investigaciones previas en el Gran Colisionador de Hadrones y sus antecesores.

Blais es el autor del texto y el único intérprete. Creó el efecto a capela y el del coro  superponiendo diferentes grabaciones de su propia voz una sobre otra. El efecto logrado es sorprendente y divertido.

There's a collider under Geneva
 Reaching new energies that we've never achieved before
Finally we can see with this machine
A brand new data peak at 125 GeV
See how gluons and vector bosons fuse
Muons and gamma rays emerge from something new
There's a collider under Geneva
Making one particle that we've never seen before

The complex scalar
Elusive boson
Escaped detection by the LEP and Tevatron The complex scalar
What is its purpose? It's got me thinking

Chorus: We could have had a model (Particle breakthrough, at the LHC)
Without a scalar field (5-sigma result, could it be the Higgs)
But symmetry requires no mass (Particle breakthrough, at the LHC)
So we break it, with the Higgs (5-sigma result, could it be the Higgs)

Baby I have a theory to be told
The standard model used to discover our quantum world SU(3), U(1), SU(2)'s our gauge
Make a transform and the equations shouldn't change

The particles then must all be massless
Cause mass terms vary under gauge transformation
The one solution is spontaneous Symmetry breaking

Roll your vacuum to minimum potential
Break your SU(2) down to massless modes
Into mass terms of gauge bosons they go
Fermions sink in like skiers into snow

Lyrics and arrangement by Tim Blais
and A Capella Science Original music by Adele