Some particle physicists were standing one day
At the Hadron Collider in CERN
They gazed at the buttons and the output display
Thought of projects they’d had to adjourn…
They dreamt of new papers, new grants and new chairs
A thirteenth dimension and more –
Those physics professors were no idle guessers
And answers there’d be they were sure.

REFRAIN

The key to the origin of mass they supposed
Was the boson they hoped would be found
By hard-working scientists who rarely reposed
And constantly rushed round and round…
Inventing, designing experiments new
To answer deep questions that seek
Where most anti-matter’d gone off to and scattered
And why gravity is so weak.

REFRAIN

Higgs, Higgs, glorious Higgs
The theory told them these thingumajigs
Were so fundamental
And not accidental
They got sentimental
When thinking of Higgs.

Danuta Orlowski, CERN choir — NOVICA Video 2009