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Some scientists used to look at the beam emitter to adjust the aim of old particle accelerators. The story I heard was that some of them eventually developed ca
by justin66 2y ago
Some scientists used to look at the beam emitter to adjust the aim of old particle accelerators. The story I heard was that some of them eventually developed cataracts as a result. Come to think of it, with today's medical technology that's a lot less awful than punching holes into your retina with a laser, but I think the result back then was eventually blindness.
- dekhn 2y agoI met a scientist who looked into a particle accelerator; it was intention, part of a self-experiment to establish whether high energy particles can cause scintillations in the eye. In his case he very carefully calculated how to get a safe dosage. On the other hand there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski