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• pavel_lishin 15y ago
  I think I remember my father telling me about a cat who wandered into a particle collider as it was being built. It died inside, and nobody realized it until they tried to pump it down to a vacuum - and kept failing, because the dead animal kept outgassing. I can't find any corroborating evidence after a 5 minute google search, so it might be an urban legend - but regardless, the answer to the next-to-last question is pretty well known.
  • Jun8 15y ago
    The story of a Russian physicist sticking his head in an accelerator is told here: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3468/what-would-happen-if-you-put-your-hand-in-front-of-the-7-tev-beam-at-lhc http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3468/what-would-h.... Half of his face was badly burnt but he survived and even completed his PhD!