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- basye, on 10/05/2008, -26/+400Why is that highly intelligent people are often devoid of common sense??
- caitlinwoodward, on 12/04/2008, -10/+266Thought this was about the Hadron Collider for a minute.
- Trots, on 10/05/2008, -2/+248So the left side of his face doesn't age? If this is true, there's a killing to be made in cosmetics.
- xptweakerntn, on 10/06/2008, -1/+213Needs more pictures.
- myFriendDerrik, on 10/06/2008, -2/+137Particle man, particle man
Doing the things a particle can
What's he like? It's not important
Particle man - 1776, on 10/05/2008, -17/+142...
- chainthrow5335, on 10/05/2008, -13/+127Particles with mass (protons, electrons) cannot move at the speed of light.
As a particle or object approaches the speed of light, its "effective mass" - how much it resists motion - increases inversely proportional to 1 - the square of its speed divided by the speed of light squared. As a particle approaches the speed of light, its mass approaches infinity, and infinitely more force is required to "push" it to go faster (ie, to push it to the speed of light)
I'm not impressed by the level of detail in the article, but it's interesting anyway. - owanderhoffe, on 10/06/2008, -9/+112oh it's on wikipedia. it must be true.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -5/+106Now when he gets angry, he turns big and green.
HULK SMASH! - aflaks, on 10/06/2008, -20/+120particle acceleration only works under unbelievably high vacuum conditions. If he really stuck his head in it, it would have instantly blew the vacuum and nothing would have happened. Fake.
EDIT: Upon further inspection; there are no gaps in accelerators, again, because of the intense vacuum that must be held in order to keep the particles from dissipating mid air. Radiation is also invisible. Utter ***** article.
Radiation itself does not need to be in an overall vacuum if you work at a beamline that extracts its radiation from the overall light source. The beam line itself needs a massive vacuum to keep the radiation from dissipating and you cant stick your head inside the actual light source because there arnt any "safety mechanisms", the whole thing is encased in 10 foot deep concrete and another 3 feet of lead. - AreTooDeTo, on 10/06/2008, -0/+90eternal youth (on one side of his face)
- sanman, on 10/06/2008, -0/+78which superpowers did he gain?
- po43292, on 10/06/2008, -2/+76The definitive reference for everything. [citation needed]
- lamiaconfitor, on 10/06/2008, -1/+71I always assumed it was because they notice it first. I've met plenty of crazy stupid people they just don't have any interest in fixing the problem. the biggest mental health problem Ive ever seen in intelligent people is depression... I have also assumed this is because smart people can recognize that the world just sucks.
- TopherT, on 10/06/2008, -1/+69Profit
- runiteking1, on 10/06/2008, -3/+64It's not that highly intelligent people have no common sense, it's just that they love to play/experiment with radiation.
- nyx210, on 10/06/2008, -3/+62Pun intended?
- wontstoptalking, on 10/06/2008, -0/+52No, then his head would have turned into a black hole.
- tortov, on 10/05/2008, -1/+51You're right, but you can still accelerate a particle with mass to something close to the speed of light. That's why we build large particle accelerators and pump enormous amounts of energy into tiny particles.
- jsdratm, on 10/06/2008, -4/+54Not Fake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
- smotpoker, on 10/05/2008, -0/+49http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
- explnx, on 04/27/2009, -0/+48I think people randomly make stupid mistakes, and we notice them more and consider them more surprising when they come from intelligent people.
- MattNF, on 10/06/2008, -3/+49Seeing as how the page cites its sources (see bottom) then yes, it's probably true.
- warsongs7, on 10/06/2008, -4/+49Increased intelligence often correlates with increased eccentricity and decreased mental health.
- NuclearFalcon, on 10/06/2008, -0/+43Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Particle man - TiMMY8765, on 10/06/2008, -0/+37super seizures
- k3rfuffl3, on 10/06/2008, -7/+42I move protons at the speed of sound every time I speak
- craeyon, on 10/06/2008, -0/+35Ok he needed an HEV suit before attempting such a dangerous task.
Gordon Freeman approves! - jackd42o, on 10/05/2008, -36/+67something tells me this is bogus... "proton beam moving at about the speed of sound" - light not sound.
- dungbeetle, on 10/06/2008, -1/+32Well something happened with radiation. That his brain and nerves dissolved and he still didn't die is pretty cool.
- theragu40, on 10/06/2008, -1/+32Come on guys, he was just trying to become Dr. Manhattan.
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+30That's....*****.....awesome.....
A superhero waiting for a name. - jokr004, on 10/06/2008, -2/+32I'm pretty sure it was an accident,
FTA "Bugorski... was checking a piece of accelerator equipment that had malfunctioned" - salvadorwii, on 10/06/2008, -2/+32Radionum Paralysis == LHCtox?
- Chainheart2, on 10/06/2008, -2/+31Dr. Manhattan
- Persian5Life, on 10/06/2008, -0/+29that's what he wants you to think
- runiteking1, on 10/06/2008, -0/+27Botulinum toxin == botox
Radionum Paralysis == ? - ebcreasoner, on 10/06/2008, -4/+30BOOM Headshot!!!
- rug009, on 10/06/2008, -0/+26@aflaks
You are correct in that many of the beamlines/endstations have air gaps between where the radiation is produced and where the sample is placed. Other endstations must operate under vacuum conditions.
Don't be so quick to say that radiation is invisible. I know of radiation that happens to have a wavelength between 380 and 750 nm that is visible. I'm guessing you've seen this radiation too. In fact, when Roentgen discovered x-rays, he noted a blue-gray haze that seemed to appear within the eye itself. So it seems plausible that he could have seen a light that bright when he was exposed.
Trust me, there are all sorts of safety mechanisms at an accelerator. There are doors that need to be opened to get you to the floor, then doors to get you to a place where you can access the storage ring, and finally you have to open the concrete door to get you inside of the storage ring. Finally you get to see the pipe that holds the vacuum that the particles travel through. There are many safety mechanisms.
I agree that there are no open places on the storage ring. You are also correct when you say that there are open-air end stations.
Keeping in mind that this happened in 78. I'm guessing the Russians weren't very forthcoming about details. Perhaps this happened on an end station and not on the main ring. Either that or the safety controls weren't what they are on an accelerator built in the last 10 years. - inactive, on 10/06/2008, -7/+31Well THAT is a conversation starter.
- barnis, on 10/06/2008, -1/+24Triangle man, Triangle man
Triangle man hates particle man
They have a fight, Triangle wins
Triangle man - inactive, on 10/06/2008, -0/+23Person man, Person man
Hit in the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Person man
Is he depressed, or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with Person man?
Degraded man, Person man - lamiaconfitor, on 10/06/2008, -3/+26You want reasons... that's hilarious... LOL
Digg isn't a place for self improvement or introspection. Its a place you come to disagree with people. - Croixce, on 10/06/2008, -1/+24Interesting to note: Wikipedia'd him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
..."showing the path that the proton beam (moving near the speed of light)"...
And yet the rest of the article is almost an exact copy/paste of it. I suspect an international communist conspiracy at work. - navghtivs, on 10/06/2008, -0/+21No you don't, the sound wave moves at the speed of sound, but the air molecules do not.
- DoogieHowitzer, on 10/06/2008, -2/+22More Pics (and related articles)
http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/sobrev ...
http://forum.canucks.com/lofiversion/index.php/t21 ...
as a note, for those that call it "Fake" because modern accelerators like CERN are in a vacuum, this one is a linear accelerator, and they often are open air at the output.... ( i think this guy got fried by a linear...) - erasedgod, on 10/06/2008, -0/+19Um, no he's not.
FTA: "Still, not only did Bugorski not die, but he remained a normally functioning human being, capable even of continuing in science." - ligyron, on 10/05/2008, -3/+21Perhaps you should read the article again
- roebeet, on 10/06/2008, -0/+18I suspect what they meant was that, because the left side is paralyzed, the normal aging process is not as apparent there. Wrinkles aren't going to form as quickly.
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