Superconducting Supercolliders

LHC

Beneath the ground,
a toroid ring creates a synchrotron
that can see unmade things.
And particles in curving paths
will meet so violently that
they will create mass.

LHC, baby, LHC
LHC, baby, L-H-H-C
LHC

Across the sea, an empty track
is buried far beneath
lonely fields of grass.
Sacked builds, abandoned still
and lying silently
in the place it was killed.

Massive rings that could
rule out strings.
Massive rings tracking
unmade things,
unmade things.

Bending charged particles
shows the way that matter is built.
You superconduct
and supercollide:
Conduct, collide,
and mass divides!

Ideas die and resurrect;
if you live long enough,
theory and practice intersect.
Linear beams so atoms smash
Head-on energy collisions leave
pseudo-coloured trails
that one can trace through ash.

Superconducting,
supercollide,
superconducting,
conduct, collide.