Do Not Try This at Home: Sticking Your Head Into a Particle Accelerator
June 3rd, 2011
Russian scientist Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski has the distinction of being the only person to ever stick his head into a running particle accelerator. The linked article explains all.
Link: http://www.todayifoundout.com/…
(via mental_floss)
[link]Tony Edgin Says:
June 15th, 2011 at 3:21 am
Here’s the take-home message. Video games have it wrong. Particle beam weapons aren’t effective, since they won’t immediately incapacitate the bad guy.
[link]Chad Cloman Says:
June 15th, 2011 at 6:00 am
Well, I think that would depend upon the width of the particle beam.