posted by Suzie Chhouk
Hank Green gives us a song to celebrate just how weird our universe is from the very very micro and very very macro.
You can download the song on iTunes or Gumroad.
This video was created as a part of the VlogBrothers Youtube channel.
Click "read more" for lyrics.
You can download the song on iTunes or Gumroad.
This video was created as a part of the VlogBrothers Youtube channel.
Click "read more" for lyrics.
Lyrics:
A quark can never exist by itself in isolation
Something very odd happens when you try to sepparate them
The energy it takes, to break up those two best friends
is just enough to create two more to join back up with them
A photon has no mass...and thus travels at light speed
If you're able imagine going that fast, and if you try I think you might be
You'd be emitted and absorbed in the exact same instant
even if you traveled from a star 13 billion light years distant.
'Cause the universe is weird
I'm kinda freaking out
What the heck is this all about?
Infinite unbounded sets
and hadronizing gluon jets, and
We'll never understand
Half of what we have at hand
At least that's what I fear
'Cause the universe is weird
An electron has a strong charge, as strong as a proton
And a tiny mass but not nonexistent like the photon
You might want to take a seat now, cause this might hurt your mind
It has mass and charge, yes, but not, apparently, a size
There's a lot of stuff all around you right now
Your chair, your friend, your planet, and your sister's neighbor's cow
Mundane mass and energy is all we know and understand
but it's only 4% of what the universe has at hand
'Cause the universe is weird
I'm kinda freaking out
What the heck is this all about?
Infinite unbounded sets
and hadronizing gluon jets, and
We'll never understand
Half of what we have at hand
At least that's what I fear
'Cause the universe is weird
I was driving in a van with my brother and I said
"John, hey, guess what, like, dude, NO EDGE!"
Because the universe does not exist in any way we can conceive it
No center, no edge, no none of that, whether or not you can believe it
Once upon a time, in a gassy liquid stew
A molecule was like "hey, I turned me into you!"
This may be the biggest mystery of all the ones in which we dwell
How the universe created a tool with which to know itself
Yeah, the universe is weird
I'm kinda freaking out
What the heck is this all about?
Infinite unbounded sets
and hadronizing gluon jets, and
We'll never understand
Half of what we have at hand
At least that's what I fear
'Cause the universe is weird
Oh, yeah, oo it's so weird
It's so frickin' weird
Oh, yeah, the universe is weird
The universe is weird
Oh, why on earth is the Earth so weird?
And the universe?
Oh why (and the universe!)
Is the universe so weird?
Oh, it's kind of freaking me out
I don't know if you noticed but
It's freakin' freaking me out
It's so weird
Oo, it's so weird
A quark can never exist by itself in isolation
Something very odd happens when you try to sepparate them
The energy it takes, to break up those two best friends
is just enough to create two more to join back up with them
A photon has no mass...and thus travels at light speed
If you're able imagine going that fast, and if you try I think you might be
You'd be emitted and absorbed in the exact same instant
even if you traveled from a star 13 billion light years distant.
'Cause the universe is weird
I'm kinda freaking out
What the heck is this all about?
Infinite unbounded sets
and hadronizing gluon jets, and
We'll never understand
Half of what we have at hand
At least that's what I fear
'Cause the universe is weird
An electron has a strong charge, as strong as a proton
And a tiny mass but not nonexistent like the photon
You might want to take a seat now, cause this might hurt your mind
It has mass and charge, yes, but not, apparently, a size
There's a lot of stuff all around you right now
Your chair, your friend, your planet, and your sister's neighbor's cow
Mundane mass and energy is all we know and understand
but it's only 4% of what the universe has at hand
'Cause the universe is weird
I'm kinda freaking out
What the heck is this all about?
Infinite unbounded sets
and hadronizing gluon jets, and
We'll never understand
Half of what we have at hand
At least that's what I fear
'Cause the universe is weird
I was driving in a van with my brother and I said
"John, hey, guess what, like, dude, NO EDGE!"
Because the universe does not exist in any way we can conceive it
No center, no edge, no none of that, whether or not you can believe it
Once upon a time, in a gassy liquid stew
A molecule was like "hey, I turned me into you!"
This may be the biggest mystery of all the ones in which we dwell
How the universe created a tool with which to know itself
Yeah, the universe is weird
I'm kinda freaking out
What the heck is this all about?
Infinite unbounded sets
and hadronizing gluon jets, and
We'll never understand
Half of what we have at hand
At least that's what I fear
'Cause the universe is weird
Oh, yeah, oo it's so weird
It's so frickin' weird
Oh, yeah, the universe is weird
The universe is weird
Oh, why on earth is the Earth so weird?
And the universe?
Oh why (and the universe!)
Is the universe so weird?
Oh, it's kind of freaking me out
I don't know if you noticed but
It's freakin' freaking me out
It's so weird
Oo, it's so weird