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So there's this guy, Anatoli Bugorski, who once before the days of such strict health and safety
Somehow managed to bypass a safety mechanism accelerator and stick his head in a 76GV proton beam
Now, that's quite a lot lower in energy than the large hadron collider beam but the amazing thing is that he just saw a bright flash and he did not feel any pain at all
Which is interesting most people think well this beam, it has got lots of energy, it will just destroy you
But actually that's not quite what happened
And after it happened his face swelled right up and the skin on that side peeled off but he didn't die
And in fact at the time he was studying for his PhD and he went on to get his PhD and it didn't put him off. He worked as a scientist for many years. And he's still alive in Russia, living in relative obscurity. I'd love to what he is up to now. A journalist interviewed him a few years ago and went to see him and because the side of his face that the beam irradiated was paralysed because of the dose of radiation and he hasn't been able to move the skin on that side of his face for so many years
That side of his face looks like it was pretty much the day that this accident occurred. When I first read this, I was like, miracle cure for aging!
A paralysed face is probably not a miracle for aging but there you go. So he looks like he did 19 years ago on one side of his face so you can actually put your head in the beam of an accelerator and survive