Watch full size video:

Her performance has drawn a half-million views so alienated on YouTube.

The 23-year-old Michigan State University graduate and science writer raps about the Large Hadron Collider, the groundbreaking mote accelerator that has been built in a 17-mile circular underground thoroughfare at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

McAlpine raps that when the collider goes into operation upon Sept. 10, “the things that it discovers will rock you in the rise.”

The $3.8 billion machine will collide two beams of protons moving at close to the speed of light so scientists can know the kind of particles appear in the resulting debris.

“Rap and science of nature are culturally miles apart,” McAlpine, a science writer at CERN, wrote to the Lansing State Journal in an e-mail last week, “and I find it amusing to try and throw them together.”

Others, including physicists, furthermore find it amusing.

“We love the thwack, and the science is spot on,” said CERN spokesman James Gillies.

McAlpine accepted permission to film herself and friends dancing in the caverns and tunnels where the experiments will take place.

“I be seized of to confess that I was incredulous when Katie said she wanted to do this, further when I axiom her prior science rapping and the lyrics, I was convinced,” Gillies said. “I think you’ll find pretty close to unanimity among physicists that it’s great.”

McAlpine honed her physics rapping skills at Michigan State’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, where she was part of a student research program couple years agone.