[Technology] The Man Who Put His Head Inside A Particle Accelerator While It Was Switched On

[Stat Brother]

https://www.iflscience.com/health-a...witched-on/amp.html?__twitter_impression=true


The next few days saw his skin peel off around the entry and exit wounds, showing a clean path burned right through his skin, skull, and brain...


...which was nice

 

[Weststander]

Not the first to do it. The first CERN mutant lost his good looks.

 

[WATFORD zero]

What other football forum could someone post a story on a man putting his head in a particle accelerator from 40 odd years ago, only to be outdone within 3 minutes by someone posting a whole documentary on it

 

[Sompting_Seagull]

 

[Gabbafella]

I watched the documentary about this about two weeks ago, unbelievable that he survived.

 

[Stat Brother]

I watched the documentary about this about two weeks ago, unbelievable that he survived.

It would seem the beam went in through the back of his skull and out by his nostril.

So the fella just didn't see it coming.

 

[Robdinho]

I used to work on a particle accelerator and you get to hear about a lot of interesting (though horrific) accidents from the early days of the field. Not often they feature survivors though - most of what we know about the dangers of high radiation doses is based on studying these poor people as they die.

Another relatively famous one is this incident:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

 

[Questions]

Ffs.......... not particle accelerator injuries again.

 

[Eric the meek]

What other football forum could someone post a story on a man putting his head in a particle accelerator from 40 odd years ago, only to be outdone within 3 minutes by someone posting a whole documentary on it

Top post Watford !

 

[Seasidesage]

Can we not have a whipround buy one of these bad boys and point at at Selhurst? We get the satisfaction and the locals get a new tip. Win win...

 

[lawros left foot]

Aaah, I hate it when this happens.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I used to work on a particle accelerator and you get to hear about a lot of interesting (though horrific) accidents from the early days of the field. Not often they feature survivors though - most of what we know about the dangers of high radiation doses is based on studying these poor people as they die.

Another relatively famous one is this incident:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

'I know. I'll invent my own procedure to deal with a plutonium core in an experiment to see how close to criticality it is. I'll just slip a screwdriver in between the beryllium domes; what could possibly go wrong? Oh shit; the screwdriver slipped out'. Dead 9 days later.

Utter insanity!

 

[Swansman]

We have one here in Lund, just about 2 km from where I live. I could try this some day.

Not quite sure how useful they are. When they built it over here it was a pretty big thing but I've yet to hear anyone saying "my life significantly improved with that particle accelerator".

 

[Bry Nylon]

We have one here in Lund, just about 2 km from where I live. I could try this some day.

Not quite sure how useful they are. When they built it over here it was a pretty big thing but I've yet to hear anyone saying "my life significantly improved with that particle accelerator".

That’s the thing about particle accelerators; some people will be positive and others will be negative

 

[Badger]

I thought this was going to be a thread about Potter's injury.

 

[The Clamp]

He's lying. I can see right through him.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

I think Sanchez would do a better job of soaking up the energy from a photon fired at our goal than Ryan.
More proof that potter made the right desicion.