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In 1978, Anatoli Bugorski accidentally stuck his head through the 70GeV U-70 Synchrotron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski http://en.wikipedia.org/
by Pinckney 16y ago
In 1978, Anatoli Bugorski accidentally stuck his head through the 70GeV U-70 Synchrotron. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
He is alive, but suffered serious injuries. As I understand, the LHC is of a similar design, at 100 times the energy.
- agscala 16y agoWell we are talking hand vs head here. I think you would probably lose your hand, but why would anyone say that you'd die?
- sbierwagen 16y agoThe beam path on the LHC is kept under high vacuum. At no point does it intersect air at atmospheric pressure. There's no way for anything to accidentally intersect the beams, which is good, since one of them is made of antimatter. EDIT: Nope! Wrong! Mistook the LHC for the LEP. The LHC does not accelerate antimatter at any point. Additionally, while the individual protons in the LHC may only be a hundred times more energetic, there are quite a few more total particles in the beams. I can't find any technical details of the U-70 synchrotron, but it came online in 1957, so there's that.
- fjh 16y agoSorry about the nitpick, but no, the LHC does not use antimatter. Both beams consist of protons (or heavy ions sometimes). Some of the accelerators at CERN, like the LEP (Large Electron Positron) Collider, do use antimatter, but the LHC does not.
- sbierwagen 16y agoThanks for the correction. Upvoted.