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Perhaps thats what would happen if you put your hand in the electron beam at the LHC, but a million times more energetic.
by sph 3y ago
Perhaps thats what would happen if you put your hand in the electron beam at the LHC, but a million times more energetic.
- mfi 3y agoAnd what would happen if you put your hand in the electron beam at the LHC?
- SeanAnderson 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
- kanobi 3y agoThere is a real life example, unfortunately. In 1978 Soviet scientist Anatoli Bugorski was hit by a 76 GeV particle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski Looks like he survived the incident and even completed his PhD in following years. He did lose hearing on one ear and was partially paralyzed though. Now the particle mentioned in the article was million time more energetic so...
- pif 3y agoNot really! One extremely-high energy particle is way, way less dangerous than a bunch of billions of less energetic particle... repeated every 25 nanoseconds!
- pif 3y agoAs an example, and admittedly in a completely separated energy range: neutrons emitted by uranium have to be slowed down in order to keep the reaction going at the desired speed. If you don't slow them down, they'll just traverse other uranium nuclei and the reaction will only proceed with its natural speed (half-life of billion of years). That's why you need a minimum mass of uranium for a nuclear explosion: you need neutrons to traverse a certain thickness of material before it gets slow enough to excite other nuclei
- namibj 3y agoPrompt criticality uses only fast neutrons.