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If you were to stick your head inside a particle accelerator, the vacuum would cause your head to explode from the inside out, the sub-zero temperature would turn your head into a Popsicle, the high energy of the particles would cause your head to melt, and the radiation would kill you.
Machines known as ‘Particle Accelerators’ weren’t popular or well-known among the general masses until quite recently. Only scientists, lab rats and physics junkies knew what these machines did, but in the age of the Internet, everything has changed. Also, another reason for the sudden boom in the popularity of this field is the success of ‘The Large Hadron Collider’.
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What Is The Large Hadron Collider?
The Large Hadron Collider – or the LHC – is the single largest machine ever built by mankind. It also holds the honor of being the largest and most powerful particle collider, as well as the largest and most complex experimental facility, on the planet. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from more than 100 countries.
Radiation
The final feature of a Particle Accelerator that will most likely be the first to kill you is the radiation from the particle beam. In fact, we have scientific evidence to prove it. In 1978, a Russian Scientist named Anatoli Bugorski actually did stick his head in the path of an accelerated particle, going down in history as a real-world mad scientist. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the proton beam; it was not as powerful as the one in the LHC, but still highly energetic. Reportedly, he saw a flash “brighter than a thousand suns”, but did not feel any pain.
Miraculously, he didn’t die, but the left half of Bugorski’s face swelled up beyond recognition and, over the next several days, began peeling off. There was virtually no damage to his intellectual capacity, although the particle had burned through; he went on to complete his PhD, still alive, but living an unusual life. The amount of radiation he received should have been enough to kill him, but since no one else had ever experienced radiation in the form of a proton beam, his case is inconclusive.He was able to function relatively normally, except for occasional seizures.
The most bizarre side effect of this ordeal actually came later. The left half of his face became paralyzed due to the destruction of nerves over the two years following the accident. The right half of Bugorski’s face looks like a normal, wrinkled old man, but due to the paralysis, the left side of his face looks much younger! One half of his face looks as young as it was years ago, as though frozen in time.
So…. sticking your head in a particle accelerator is now a miracle aging cure? Maybe… if you’re ready to trade aging for paralysis, not to mention all the other dangers of sticking your head where it doesn’t belong!
