WE are all still here!

The world's most powerful physics experiment is well and truly under way.

Scientists cheered as a beam of proton particles completed their first circuit of the 27km long Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

At 8.30am today, the machine which some fear could create a giant black hole capable of swallowing the planet was switched on.

But the experts behind the biggest experiment in human history have spent the hours leading up to it performing a bizarre rap for the internet.

In the Large Hadron Rap – named after the £5billion Large Hadron Collider machine – a robotic voice meant to sound like disabled British genius Prof Stephen Hawking explains how the team is about “to drop some particle physics in da club”.

As the boffins dance around the European Nuclear Research Centre – known as CERN, using its French initials – their chief rapper called Alpinekat chants:

“The LHC accelerates the protons and the lead.

“And the things that it discovers will rock you in the head.

“We see asteroids and planets galore, “We know a black hole resides at each galaxy’s core.

“But even all that matter can not explain “What holds all these stars together something else remains.”

Beams

Scientists from 60 countries have been working 250ft underground on the project which is trying to recreate conditions in the first billionth of a second after the Big Bang dawn of the universe 14 billion years ago.

They aim to fire beams of protons at almost the speed of light in opposite directions through a 17-mile ring-shaped frozen tunnel.

Each beam will pack as much energy as a 93mph Eurostar train.