Ja, you’d better come prepared
This is MC Squared
Here to tell you about a preposterous fact
That’s gonna make you scared
Ich bin the crazy-haired rapper who has dared to declare
That the E is the M to the C to the square.
This is energy-mass equivalence –
There’s no ambivalence –
It’s an inevitable inference once you’ve cancelled out the dividends.
I’ll set the world aflame with my outrageous claim:
Energy and mass are one and the same.
I’m gonna give reality a brand new face,
Gonna communicate my case, gonna prove it to be true.
I’m gonna lay before you a theory of space…
Und it’s about time too.
Now when I say ‘E’, y’all give me east-side
Copy me, that’s these three fingers held wide.
Now ‘E’ stands for ‘energy’, commit this to your memory.
Your left hand gives an equals sign, exactly as it’s meant to be.
When I say ‘M’, keep your fingers as before
But let your wrist flop, flip the tips to the floor.
Now ‘M’ stands for ‘mass’, be it solid, liquid, gas.
Yo, break down, and let me see you give it hardcore.
(That was a cue for you all to do some break-dancing, ja? Nein? Oh well.)
Now when I say ‘C’, y’all gimme this sign.
‘C’s the constant speed of light, over two nine nine
Million metres every second, so the scientists have reckoned.
Let’s rewind to recap how those letters combine.
E equals M to the C ja.
Gimme E equals M to the C, everybody now:
E equals M to the C ja.
Gimme E equals M to the C.
Okay! One more symbol, it’s incredibly simple,
Stick two fingers up, like peace to the people,
Hold it high up in the sky, make it superscripted. Why?
‘Cos it’s itself that the speed of light is multiplied by.
E equals M to the C squared,
Gimme E equals M C squared, everybody now,
E equals M to the C squared.
Gimme E equals M C squared.
For Schnitzel my nitzel.
But so what if the E is M C to the peace?
What species of beast is this algebraic centrepiece?
What knowledge does it increase? What truths does it release?
What’s the significance of equivalence? These questions I’ll appease.
Matter…is frozen…energy. I’ll say that again:
Matter…is frozen…energy. Just think about it, cos if
Matter…is frozen…energy, then even the tiniest morsel of
Matter’s potentially the biggest energy source that our century’s yet to see.
For example, even the tiniest grain of sand,
Tiny enough to get lost in your hand,
Has enough frozen energy locked in its core
To boil two billion kettles or more.
I’m gonna give reality a brand new face,
Gonna communicate my case, gonna prove it to be true,
I’m gonna lay before you a theory of space…
And it’s about time too.
Okay one final chorus!
E equals M to the C squared
Gimme E equals M C squared, everybody now
E equals M to the C squared
Gimme E equals M C squared, fo’ schnitzel!
E equals M to the C squared
Gimme E equals M C squared, one final time
E equals M to the C squared
Gimme E… equals M… C… squared, yeah!
credits
from Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking,
released November 14, 2013
Recorded by Alan Diamond at Nye Barn Studio, Ditchling
Remixed by Johnny Acecraft
Mastered by Ash Wobbler
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