This Is What Happens When You Stick Your Head Into A Particle Accelerator

Published on 05/05/2019
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Unbelievably Speedy Particles

Particle accelerators shoot particles at incredible speeds – if you want the specifics, they are 99.994 percent that of the speed of light. Basically, this means it sends the particles at 670,576,392 miles an hour. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is incredibly fast. Of course, state-of-the-art technology is important here. Below, you are looking at the particle accelerator. The purpose of multiple accelerators is to provide different capacities that then allow these particles to come even closer to the speed of light. In other words, they allow humans to inspect the physics of the so-called unknown. This is how they have discovered things such as the Higgs Boson particle.

Unbelievably Speedy Particles

Unbelievably Speedy Particles

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Collision of Particles

When a thing of significant mass travels near such a speed, you cannot expect a good outcome for whatever it comes into contact with. It is not unusual to expect a catastrophic explosion to happen after the collision. Let us take a look at several examples of things like this to understand the severity of the situation. Let us look at a handful of examples that will give us a deeper understanding of what the Soviet scientist went through. First of all, there are things such as asteroids that make an impact. This is primarily because they are large and made of dense and heavy materials. Something of this size will not need the same amount of speed or energy to cause a lot of damage. However, the mass can’t be all that smaller when you increase the speed to achieve the same kind of damage.

Collision of Particles

Collision of Particles

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