{"id":50188,"date":"2026-01-18T16:35:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50188"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:35:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:35:55","slug":"particle-accelerators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/01\/18\/particle-accelerators\/","title":{"rendered":"Particle Accelerators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nAccelerating particles practically<br \/>\n(To the speed of light)<br \/>\nOut of sight!<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nTo get to live<br \/>\n(Along alive)<br \/>\nWould would I give<br \/>\n(To live)<br \/>\n&#8230; to thrive<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n(Survive)<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Piano Solo, Strings, Bass, Percussion]<br \/>\nAccelerating particles practically<br \/>\n(To the speed of light)<br \/>\nOut of sight!<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Synth Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse]<br \/>\nTo arrive alive<br \/>\n(What&#8217;s the destination)<br \/>\nTo merely survive<br \/>\n(Or love procreation)<br \/>\n&#8230; mind dive<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n(Extracurricular education)<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Piano Solo, Strings, Bass, Percussion]<br \/>\nAccelerating particles practically<br \/>\n(To the speed of light)<br \/>\nOut of sight!<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Synth Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nIf you could live forever<br \/>\n(Would you ever)<br \/>\nAccept the endeavor?<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<br \/>\nParticle Accelerators: At facilities like the GSI Helmholtz Centre in Germany, physicists accelerate ions to near-light speeds, observing that these particles &#8220;live&#8221; much longer than they do at rest\u2014a direct confirmation of time dilation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/the-future\/\">The Future<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Intro] Accelerating particles practically (To the speed of light) Out of sight! [Verse] To get to live (Along alive) Would would I give (To live) &#8230; to thrive [Bridge] (Survive) [Instrumental, Piano Solo, Strings, Bass, Percussion] Accelerating particles practically (To the speed of light) Out of sight! [Instrumental, Synth Solo] [Verse] To arrive alive (What&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,14],"tags":[4200],"class_list":["post-50188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-lyrics","tag-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50197,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50188\/revisions\/50197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}