Man Sticks Head in Particle Accelerator (Neatorama)

[Drew Wilson]

So with all the recent news about the Large Hadron Collider, many of you may have this nagging question: what, exactly, would happen if you stick your head in the particle accelerator?

Well, actually, we know the answer to that because someone did stick his head into a particle accelerator.

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Bugorski, a 36-year-old researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned - as had, apparently, the several safety mechanisms. Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain.

From what we know about radiation, about 500 to 600 rads is enough to kill a person (though we don’t know of anyone else who has been exposed to radiation in the form of a proton beam moving at about the speed of sound). The left side of his face swollen beyond recognition, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow so that doctors could observe his death over the following two to three weeks.

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What a horrible way to go.

"I graduated top of my class in physics. Know many interesting things about the universe. Have an IQ of 225. Got a Nobel Prize. Devoted my life's work to expanding the knowledge of the human race. Then, one day, I stuck my head in a particle accelerator and died."

[w31n3r]

The dividing line of his life goes down the middle of his face: the right side has aged, while the left froze 19 years ago. When he concentrates, he wrinkles only half his forehead.

i can see this replacing botox as an ever youth fix. so if paris hilton sticks her head in a particle accelerator (heh, expand on this for me), she'll look young forever? c'mon paris! you can do it!

[RACKnRAIL]

so if paris hilton sticks her head in a particle accelerator (heh, expand on this for me), she'll look young forever? c'mon paris! you can do it!

Paris needs a brain accelerator, not a particle accelerator.

[mountain_rage]

My god! He turned his skin into bolonium!

[Ashrapi]

Your head will change into a fly head, and you'll begin to pursuit young ladies..

[badcaffeine]

Interesting... 1/2 his face stopped aging?... I guess they found part of their fountain of youth. Sucks that it nearly kills people or deforms you! And, as someone that has been in industrial buildings, factories, and the military, they had to have (even back in 1978) some sort of safety coloring (yellow and black diag. stripes?) that would tell you NOT TO CROSS IT! Even if he WERE needing to get in there to work on it, there were probably a dozen safeties that either all failed or were ignored.

Mr. Bugorski is one of the 1978 winners of the Darwin award!

[mountain_rage]

Safety with scientific equipment in much more minimalist than standard equipment. They expect the scientists to know wtf they are doing. Sadly everyone is susceptible to brain farts.

Here is a real psycho from the early days of nuclear research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin

[ctarlet]

The true two-face. He should sue for rights LOL. *justkidding*.

[Torrents4all]

He was probably trying to gain super powers. :icon_pira

[Mels_Smileys45]

I didn't think they let people even in the tunnel while the thing was on as just being there can kill you. Maybe he had his head in one of those super coolled relay station thingies and it fired up...or someone just wanted to see what would happen to his melon.

[wapazoid]

Leaning over the piece of equipment, Bugorski stuck his head in the space through which the beam passes on its way from one part of the accelerator tube to the next and saw a flash brighter than a thousand suns. He felt no pain. The left side of his face swollen beyond recognition, Bugorski was taken to a clinic in Moscow so that doctors could observe his death over the following two to three weeks.

Visualizing this made me laugh (minus the part about him dying). But I feel bad now.


Sort of.

I think he really was trying to gain super powers. :bom:

[A_mber]

The true two-face. He should sue for rights LOL. *justkidding*.

you are such a dork, and that made me laugh a hella lot

[thelastfreeman]

At least he didn't stick his piece into it.

[mfgbypooter]

Now he knows what it must be like to stick your head up in God's ass.

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[Torrents4all]

At least he didn't stick his piece into it.

Might have gotten bigger if he did. ;)