What Happens When You Put Your Head in a Particle Accelerator
306The Large Hadron Collider shoots and crashes subatomic particle beams traveling almost at light speed to help scientists figure out the unsolved questions of physics. But what would happen if that energy focused on a human? It happened! Kim Horcher and Tim Frisch break it down.
"What would happen if you stuck your body inside a particle accelerator? The scenario seems like the start of a bad Marvel comic, but it happens to shed light on our intuitions about radiation, the vulnerability of the human body, and the very nature of matter. Particle accelerators allow physicists to study subatomic particles by speeding them up in powerful magnetic fields and then tracing the interactions that result from collisions.."*
Read more: https://qz.com/964065/this-is-what-happened-to-the-scientist-who-stuck-his-head-inside-a-particle-accelerator/
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