Troubadour's rec-listed quantum physics diary is a fascinating read, but it's missing something: Musical accompaniment.
"Bohemian Gravity" is an a capella take on Queen's famous song redone with physics lyrics. It's all by one man: Tim Blais, a physics graduate student at McGill University in Canada. One of his hobbies is recording science-y cover versions of popular songs.
Here's a lyrics selection to get you in the mood: "Space is a pure void. Why should it be stringy? Because it's quantum not classical. Nonrenormalizable. Any way you quantize. You'll encounter infinity. You see." ...
Part of what makes this version spectacular, besides the lyrics, is that Blais had to multi-track himself to create the layers of vocals needed for the song. The video shows him tackling all the parts as he illustrates the lyrics with blackboard equations and an Einstein hand puppet.
Apparently Blais put this together at the same time he was writing his
Master's thesis (
A new quantization condition for parity-violating three-dimensional gravity). This thing is way freakin' cool.