Post by Optimus on May 7, 2017 11:47:42 GMT -5
This is old news but it's the first I'd heard of it. Fascinating stuff.
There's more info about what actually happened and what side effects he suffered (SPOILER ALERT: He lived), but this was interesting too:
There ya have it, folks. Stop wasting money on those wrinkle creams and just get on over to CERN and stick your head in the Large Hadron Collider.
mentalfloss.com/article/31616/man-who-survived-proton-beam-brain
On July 13, 1978, Russian scientist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski became the only person to ever stick his head in a running particle accelerator. A researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment on the Soviet particle accelerator, Synchrotron U-70, when he accidentally put his head directly in the path of the machine's proton beam. He reported seeing a flash that was “brighter than a thousand suns,” but did not feel any pain when this happened.
There's more info about what actually happened and what side effects he suffered (SPOILER ALERT: He lived), but this was interesting too:
The most bizarre side effect that occurred has to do with his face. Looking at Bugorski now, you’d see the right half of his face looks like a normal wrinkled old man, but the left half of his face looks as if it was frozen in time decades ago. Apparently Botox has got nothing on a particle accelerator’s proton beam for stopping wrinkles.
There ya have it, folks. Stop wasting money on those wrinkle creams and just get on over to CERN and stick your head in the Large Hadron Collider.
mentalfloss.com/article/31616/man-who-survived-proton-beam-brain
