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

Published on 05/05/2019
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Oh My God

You will be fascinated when you learn why they dubbed the Oh-My-God particle by its name. The fast-flying spec earned its moniker because that was the reaction of the physicists who discovered it! It came with around 100 quintillion times the energy you will find in a regular photon. In order for this particle to travel so fast, it needs to be very tiny. This is why the particle did not cause much damage – it was tiny enough to avoid contact with anything. If it did, the explosion’s magnitude would be equivalent to a baseball thrown lazily. However, what would happen if it collided with something like human flesh?

Oh My God

Oh My God

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The Best Back In The Day

The amount of damage you should expect from a particle accelerator depends on a couple of things. First of all, you need to consider the speed of the particle. The faster it is moving, the greater the damage. The Synchrotron U-70, the very same one our Soviet scientist put his head inside, was not actually the most powerful of its kind. However, it certainly was at the time it happened. The accelerator had the ability to send the particles at a greater energy than other accelerators in other parts of the globe. It was built in 1967 and could travel at nearly the same speed that light travels.

The Best Back In The Day

The Best Back In The Day

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