The Man Who Put His Head Inside A Particle Accelerator While It Was Switched On

https://www.iflscience.com ^ | 22 APR 2021, 17:24 | By James Felton

[dangus]

“Weirder still, as he aged the right side of his head showed signs of aging, while the left side did not.”

If there’s not a mad scientist researching this, I’ve lost my faith in mad scientists.

[Red Badger]

We could make a fortune in Hollywood!...............

[Kommodor]

At least it wasn’t on ‘Mertilize’...

[beethovenfan]

I’m confused. Particle beams occur in ultra-high vacuum. If he “stuck his head in there” the vacuum would have been broken and the beam scattered by air molecules. Am I missing something?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Question: what was the first thing to go through his mind?

[Red Badger]

Depends on how big the tube is.
If it’s very large, the vacuum would take a few seconds to dissipate..................

[Red Badger]

A proton....................

[The_Media_never_lie]

Fist of all, lousy safety procedures. The person going into harms way should have had a padlock on the breaker. Secondly, multiple safety features do not just “fail”.

Bad design. Safety of people was never a high priority in the USSR.

[Dr. Sivana]

Isn't that what they threatened #6 with in "The Prisoner"? A scalpel free lobotomy?

[T.B. Yoits]

Typical Soviets; smart enough to do it wrong while unimaginative and callous enough to accept shoddy safety standards.

There are those who would blame Communism, which was used to kill off millions of capable and caring Russians, but Communism was an inevitable next step for those who already had the mindset and embraced its implementation. There are a lot of former Soviets here in the U.S. who still think and act with the same unimaginative and callous mindset of their parents and grandparents.

[one guy in new jersey]

Connections to Florida?

[krogers58]

As I understand it, doctors use proton beams for very precise surgeries, such as brain surgery and prostate surgery. Apparently it is a single proton, which is said to be able to be aimed with almost molecular precision, thus minimizing damage to surrounding tissue. It’s kind of a sad story, what this guy went through, but he is likely one of the luckiest, or unluckiest men on the planet, depending on your perspective. From what I’ve read, proton beam prostate surgery is the best form of said surgery, if it must be done. There are only a handful of institutions which perform this surgery, however, due to the immense cost of a medical-grade proton beam accelarator.

[krogers58]

As I understand it, doctors use proton beams for very precise surgeries, such as brain surgery and prostate surgery. Apparently it is a single proton, which is said to be able to be aimed with almost molecular precision, thus minimizing damage to surrounding tissue. It’s kind of a sad story, what this guy went through, but he is likely one of the luckiest, or unluckiest men on the planet, depending on your perspective. From what I’ve read, proton beam prostate surgery is the best form of said surgery, if it must be done. There are only a handful of institutions which perform this surgery, however, due to the immense cost of a medical-grade proton beam accelarator.

Here's a link to this surgery:

https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/diagnosis-treatment/care-centers-clinics/proton-therapy-center/conditions-we-treat/prostate-cancer.html

[SuperLuminal]

Not too interested in how he supposedly survived a beam of protons...

What is more interesting is how he managed to get his head into a high-vacuum chamber and, then, why he didn’t die of asphyxiation...

Are we talking about an accident with a proton beam or some synchrotron radiation?

[SunkenCiv]

[three seconds earlier] "What's in here?"

[Cloverfarm]

Lock Out Tag Out is when Maintenance locks and powers down a machine before working on it.

One of my cousins got a severe head injury from LOTO being overlooked on a repair job.

[Louis Foxwell]

Do you reckon this is what happened to Biden?

No.

But it might help. We could try.

Anything is better than this.

[minnesota_bound]

Try this at home using your microwave oven : )

[KarlInOhio]

w Weirder still, as he aged the right side of his head showed signs of aging, while the left side did not.

Lamest superpower ever.

This reminded me of a satirical headline from a newspaper named after a root vegetable that can't be posted here: High school photographer dies from lukemia after radioactive spider bite.

[TBP]

Trust the science.