Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...

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  • čas přidán 15. 09. 2010
  • More answers to questions from Sixty Symbols viewers, covering the LHC, exploding stars and galaxies made of anti-matter. Part One is at • Answers (Part One) - S...
    More LHC videos: bit.ly/LHCvideos
    Including Philip Moriarty, Ed Copeland and Meghan Gray and Laurence Eaves and Mike Merrifield
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  • @mrghostdlm1386
    @mrghostdlm1386 Před 8 lety +2392

    I love the fact that if they don't know something they say we don't know.

    • @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557
      @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557 Před 8 lety +473

      +MrGhostDLM they're scientists. not politicians. or youtubers.

    • @mrghostdlm1386
      @mrghostdlm1386 Před 8 lety +39

      Carl Coppens Yeah politicians lies a lot !!!

    • @zhoupact8567
      @zhoupact8567 Před 8 lety +66

      +MrGhostDLM I dont know. But I will ask my magical, rainbow farting, diamond unicorn. It made everything, so it shuld know.

    • @DaKnightsofawesome
      @DaKnightsofawesome Před 8 lety +12

      that's just what people say when talking about science because there's very little that people know that they are unsure about so they either know it or nobody knows it.

    • @ChilledCanadian
      @ChilledCanadian Před 8 lety +4

      Chandler Gloyd
      We do know this one though, since a guy had his head between the beam

  • @Dontworryboutit247
    @Dontworryboutit247 Před 8 lety +1813

    i love how everyone initially laughs at the question but then this guy @ 0:49

  • @charleshill3802
    @charleshill3802 Před 5 lety +406

    Scientists: We made the most advanced particle collider to understand subatomic particles.
    General Public: I wanna stick my hand in it!

    • @davidripley2916
      @davidripley2916 Před 2 lety +2

      Let them. For Science and Humanity.
      And lols 💥

    • @stefipaudinbasterdatlarge.7769
      @stefipaudinbasterdatlarge.7769 Před rokem

      You cant understand sub-atomic particles with BASHING ATOMS....They are tiny-weeny fings that CREATE....They are just trying to get a POWERFUL weapon....and are opening PORTALS 2 EVIL spirits...Besides its all SECRET..THEY WILL NEVER TELL YOU A fing about it....

    • @timothysmith8667
      @timothysmith8667 Před rokem +1

      There a company called Raytheon . That made a weapon called the denial system

    • @rauminen4167
      @rauminen4167 Před rokem +1

      "hand"

  • @matteobaisotti1398
    @matteobaisotti1398 Před 7 lety +520

    There would be a huge lag spike

  • @bushputz
    @bushputz Před 10 lety +538

    "If I put my hand into the Large Hadron Collider beam..."
    You'd probably be posthumously awarded credit for discovering the Darwin Particle...

  • @nico118118
    @nico118118 Před 7 lety +509

    Well I'm bored. If you need a hand let me know

  • @BrettCaton
    @BrettCaton Před 5 lety +478

    "You're not allowed to make universes".
    Damn EU regulations!

    • @TheLegitAlpha
      @TheLegitAlpha Před 4 lety +8

      Brett Caton I will reboot the universe if I must. One heat death is enough, a new universe will take its place.

    • @xavierpaquin
      @xavierpaquin Před 4 lety +13

      Another of life's simple pleasures ruined by a meddling bureaucracy, ladies and gentlemen

    • @N.M.E.
      @N.M.E. Před 4 lety +6

      Well... you may now!

    • @scfog90
      @scfog90 Před 3 lety

      Imagine, that a part of the universe would be created in France and nobody wants that

    • @amjadhussaindanish1974
      @amjadhussaindanish1974 Před 3 lety

      @@TheLegitAlpha Heat Death!!. That will happen in about a Googol Years.

  • @Stahlwollvieh
    @Stahlwollvieh Před 9 lety +147

    That guy in Russia actually got hit in the face by a particle accelerator:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

    • @RedHairdo
      @RedHairdo Před 8 lety +26

      Stahlwollvieh LHC is incomparably much stronger, which is likely why he wasn't mentioned in the video.

    • @Stahlwollvieh
      @Stahlwollvieh Před 8 lety +9

      TheHarboe Probably. Or it would make an even cleaner hole even quicker.^^

    • @4mn10n
      @4mn10n Před 4 lety +5

      Yess! The Chaos Computer Club has named a yearly award for exemplary nuclear safety after him. xD

    • @sgdgsc3236
      @sgdgsc3236 Před 3 lety

      Proton beam passed through his brain.

    • @sauercrowder
      @sauercrowder Před 3 lety +2

      @@bin_chicken80 It's a real problem. Usually if you're working somewhere that safety is actually thought about, you have to do something very wrong to put yourself in a situation where you get seriously hurt, so you don't want to tell anyone if you can avoid it.

  • @krashd
    @krashd Před 9 lety +658

    Your hand would vanish then reappear on Xen whereby it would probably be picked up by a Vortigaunt and placed in his lunchbox for later.

  • @whig3982
    @whig3982 Před 8 lety +124

    hahaha thats awesome all proffesors are suprised and prof.Moriarty is like:"I dont now the energy density"

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty Před 7 lety +396

    I'm pretty sure the one guy is right about the first question, the energy would be dumped into your body, it would be like something between being electrocuted and being crushed by a steam roller from the inside out... Best case scenario it makes every atom in your arm race apart from one another in an instant and you just get tossed back against the wall, defeated, one armed, and surrounded by angry scientists.

    • @iwanabana
      @iwanabana Před 7 lety +18

      i'm in love with you.

    • @aimerielbe7505
      @aimerielbe7505 Před 7 lety +12

      That last part lol😂

    • @iwanabana
      @iwanabana Před 7 lety +8

      Throttle Kitty suspense of a thriller, peppered with nerd, and a British-comedyesqe punchline. Who ARE you?!

    • @mayurchoudhari3372
      @mayurchoudhari3372 Před 7 lety

      But like if a bullet passes through water maybe protons may pass through our body

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty Před 7 lety +14

      mayur choudhari A bullet doesn't pass through water, it violently rips a tunnel-like hole through it, and the water reforms around it nearly instantly. You can probably find a slow-mo video of it online somewhere!

  • @napoleon_bonaparte2462
    @napoleon_bonaparte2462 Před 7 lety +70

    NONE of them mentioned the Bugorski incident? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
    July 1978, Bugorski was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the 76 GeV proton beam. Reportedly, he saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns" but did not feel any pain.
    Since the LHC is firing far more particles at a much higher energy, I would expect your hand to be disintegrated, very quickly.

    • @Kizron_Kizronson
      @Kizron_Kizronson Před 7 lety +5

      There are pictures of the injury on the Internet if you are willing to search for them. The hole that the beam made in anatoli's head can easily be seen. There are also images taken in hospital where the docs have poked a metal probe clear through his head following the path of the beam damage.

    • @ahmedsanai7160
      @ahmedsanai7160 Před 7 lety

      Kizron Kizronson link?

    • @KevynDaquin
      @KevynDaquin Před 7 lety +2

      the LHC is way more powerful and energized than the old U-70 (synchrotron)

    • @tomdunphy6865
      @tomdunphy6865 Před 7 lety +3

      Bloodmoon he lost some movement in his face and became blind in one eye, but lived with no other problems

    • @jasperfk
      @jasperfk Před 7 lety +2

      Kizron Kizronson it didn't make a hole per se, it just shot 78 billion volts (equivalent), blinding his left eye, deafening his left ear, and mulching that side of his brain.

  • @aidanrobichaud-ward9796
    @aidanrobichaud-ward9796 Před 10 lety +47

    Not sure if anyone's mentioned it, but Sean Carroll mentions Anatoli Bugorski in his book "The Particle at the End of the Universe", who took a 76 GeV proton beam to the face (only about 2% of the energy of an average single beam in the LHC) at Russia's U-70 Synchotron. Pretty interesting how he ended up. He said he felt no pain, but then about that was only 2% of the energy of the LHC.

  • @LCdrDerrick
    @LCdrDerrick Před 9 lety +31

    Anatoli Bugorski even put his head into the proton beam (76 GeV) of the U-70 syncrotron, accidently. He survived, yes, yes. He didn't look good afterwards, his head swoll beyond recognition. He didn't feel any pain when he was hit, but saw a light brighter than 1000 suns he said afterwards. Eventually he recovered and finished his thesis. He had los hearing and one eye's sight but his intellectual capacity didn't suffer, though he lost mental endurance.

    • @sauercrowder
      @sauercrowder Před 3 lety +1

      He also suffered from seizures

    • @brunnomenxa
      @brunnomenxa Před rokem +1

      And because of it, a phenomenon related to the energy peak of the phenomenon during the collision was discovered.
      The late peak dramatically reduced the amount of energy he received early on.

  • @SuperSaltyFries
    @SuperSaltyFries Před 9 lety +263

    I love how science brings people together from all over the world. It's beautiful :')

    • @351cleavland
      @351cleavland Před 9 lety +39

      SuperSaltyFries French fries do the same thing!

    • @trickycat3438
      @trickycat3438 Před 9 lety +2

      Jack Jewell and they are made of particals

    • @darkzap10
      @darkzap10 Před 9 lety

      It was intentional I'm sorry if it wasn't evident, but thank you all the same.

    • @hermest99
      @hermest99 Před 8 lety

      SuperSaltyFries Everything has that property as long as you can find enough people interested in it. I bet you can do a global washcloth enthousiast convention annually if only you can promote it to the right group worldwide.

    • @gcirc
      @gcirc Před 8 lety +2

      +hermest99 indeed in Japan I believe there is a new craze it's called moss watching as in moss that grows on trees. Lol

  • @theSUICIDEfox
    @theSUICIDEfox Před 7 lety +113

    I love how they are all like "oh they wouldn't let you". Not the point >.

    • @muffntheB
      @muffntheB Před 5 lety +9

      what do you do for a paycheck? let me guess~ " welcome to walmart, i love you"@13randon 13axter

    • @alexmsevans
      @alexmsevans Před 5 lety +32

      @Dreamstate or maybe they would rather not publicize completely unfounded hypotheses to the public world without any kind of research because they are valued scientists and would rather not spread misinformation to the public.

    • @kostasgamer1345
      @kostasgamer1345 Před 4 lety +1

      @Dreamstate U are not clever 😂

    • @LordZordid
      @LordZordid Před 4 lety

      I met quite a lot of scientists and most of them lack imagination.

    • @BuGGyBoBerl
      @BuGGyBoBerl Před 4 lety +4

      @@LordZordid uh imagination is a very needed skill for science.

  • @mickenoss
    @mickenoss Před 9 lety +324

    I think I remember hearing about a russian guy years ago, who somehow had a beam hit him in the face. It basically put a hole through him from his nose to the back/top of his head. Apparently he was relelavely okay too lol.

    • @mickenoss
      @mickenoss Před 9 lety +111

      Yeah found it. Anatoli Bugorski was his name =)

    • @kcys34
      @kcys34 Před 9 lety +7

      mickenoss Wow, thanks for sharing ;]

    • @westleykana
      @westleykana Před 9 lety

      :O ll

    • @EvelynDayless
      @EvelynDayless Před 9 lety +37

      mickenoss yea, it had a lot of nasty effects. I'm surprised no one mentioned it in the video.

    • @qwerfa
      @qwerfa Před 9 lety +60

      mickenoss Made a quick calculation. Assuming every proton was carrying the maximum amount of energy it could in that synchrotron, the beam Bugorski was struck with was carrying about 190.6 KJ of energy. Assuming maximum energy per proton, the LHC beam would be carrying 362 MJ. 1899 times more than Bugorski was hit with... This is probably why they didn't mention him.

  • @vondahe
    @vondahe Před 4 lety +21

    As a Sherlock Holmes fan I was equally thrilled and worried to see a Prof Moriarty working there.

  • @kostasjurkevicius6156
    @kostasjurkevicius6156 Před 8 lety +134

    thats how we get superpowers

  • @Grumplefut
    @Grumplefut Před 5 lety +2

    I always appreciate when an expert can say "I don't know". Nothing is worse than making up an answer.

  • @TestMeatDollSteak
    @TestMeatDollSteak Před 10 lety +135

    Somebody should put a ham sandwich or a pollywog in the thing and take bets on what happens.

    • @no1rory466
      @no1rory466 Před 6 lety +1

      TestMeatDollSteak
      Yeah these scientists are so boring. Why don’t they do things like this...

    • @erniefacio5532
      @erniefacio5532 Před 6 lety +12

      No:1 Rory maybe because it's a BILLION DOLLAR TAX PAYER FUNDED MACHINE 💀

  • @Barnacules
    @Barnacules Před 11 lety +9

    Finally, a video that answers the questions I care about! Screw micro black holes and setting the earth on fire. I wanna know what it will do to my hand!

  • @blueisnotgreen7258
    @blueisnotgreen7258 Před 4 lety +1

    This answered a ton of questions about particle accelerators for me. None of which are “what would happen if you put your hand in front of the beam.”

  • @PopeCannabis
    @PopeCannabis Před 5 lety +9

    I love how passionate they seem about their work

  • @tophtml1
    @tophtml1 Před 9 lety +57

    It already happened to David Banner. He turned into Lou Ferrigno.

    • @SpiritMolecule
      @SpiritMolecule Před 9 lety +1

      tophtml1 looool

    • @holeskoj
      @holeskoj Před 9 lety +1

      tophtml1 Comment of the year.

    • @zapdog_
      @zapdog_ Před 9 lety +1

      You have just won the internet.

    • @jimstone3014
      @jimstone3014 Před 9 lety +1

      tophtml1 "Bruce" Banner. And he turned into The Hulk.

    • @tophtml1
      @tophtml1 Před 9 lety +1

      Jim Pigmon
      The 1978 Television series didn't strictly follow the comic book.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_%281978_TV_series%29

  • @digimbyte
    @digimbyte Před 10 lety +51

    This actually happened, someone working on the beam, was stupid enough to put his face in the way and it shot a hole through his nose and out the back of his head.
    He didn't feel anything but blacked out, when he recovered he said he saw the light of about 1000 suns and felt nothing.
    He survived with minor brain damage and managed to recover to a livable state.

    • @iamawatermelon9299
      @iamawatermelon9299 Před 6 lety +1

      Fake news

    • @Maogaw
      @Maogaw Před 6 lety

      .

    • @vapenation7061
      @vapenation7061 Před 6 lety

      iamawatermelon it’s not fake news it’s real, i remember seeing it a time ago. the beam went right through his head, i think he lost vision in one eye though. it wasn’t at the lhc, though.

    • @tyynymyy7770
      @tyynymyy7770 Před 5 lety

      iamawatermelon Anatoli Bugorski.

  • @robertyang4365
    @robertyang4365 Před 9 lety +893

    More like... the large HANDron collider!
    *ba dum tss*

    • @lickytime9683
      @lickytime9683 Před 9 lety +6

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    • @JohnnyTromboner
      @JohnnyTromboner Před 9 lety +2

      Ohho.wav

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear Před 8 lety +18

      More like My Large Hard On Collider

    • @johnamil2342
      @johnamil2342 Před 8 lety +1

      +StopFear AHAHAHAHAAA

    • @aidenmilam6120
      @aidenmilam6120 Před 8 lety +1

      I get it lol

  • @jajajajanej
    @jajajajanej Před 5 lety +3

    😄 Love the way he calls a hand ”a big high density region”. 3:31

  • @th3thin9
    @th3thin9 Před 8 lety +29

    The thumbnail is Megadeth's Supercollider album art!

  • @giulio2lavendetta
    @giulio2lavendetta Před 10 lety +7

    what's the name of the guy speaking at 7.35? he's the only one who answeres directly to the question without evitating it by saing un-necessary comments or bullshit

  • @mindtreat
    @mindtreat Před 5 lety +46

    Thank you YT algorithm, today i learned i don't wanna put my hand in the Hadron Collider...

  • @MurphyMonster
    @MurphyMonster Před 8 lety +14

    "I don't think you'll survive very much"

  • @Dremos77
    @Dremos77 Před 10 lety +388

    Chuck Norris put his hand in it in 2008 and a magnet broke.

    • @backseatslidepuzzle
      @backseatslidepuzzle Před 9 lety +17

      chuck norris put his hand in it in 2008, lost it and cried like the little baby he actually is

    • @johnnysantos3997
      @johnnysantos3997 Před 7 lety +27

      Chuck Norris put his hand in it in 2008, What happened next will shock you !

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 Před 6 lety +6

      Even the speed of light in vacuum slowed down for Chuck's hand.

    • @DaveDablave
      @DaveDablave Před 6 lety +2

      Trick question, cern keeps Chuck Norris on retainer to roundhouse kick the protons up to near light-speed.

    • @benparker2321
      @benparker2321 Před 6 lety +2

      This is a normie fest

  • @ThePictoucounty
    @ThePictoucounty Před 10 lety +14

    'I don't think you'll survive very much.'

  • @MrFivefivefivesix
    @MrFivefivefivesix Před 8 lety +1

    As an artist my favourite symbol is Phi (𝞅) as is it is the basis for many compositions in art, music, poetry, architecture, sculpture and artistic anatomy.

  • @-danR
    @-danR Před 7 lety +6

    'an aircraft carrier moving at 6 knots.'
    Even if the particles only punched a sub-micron width hole in the center of your hand, if only 1/1000 of the collision energy were to be dissipated in perpendicular particle scatter, the resulting damage would be the vaporization of your hand in

    • @noahpafford4938
      @noahpafford4938 Před 7 lety

      tubeist- dan you spell out the word "second" but you use the less than symbol. I am now distracted.

    • @-danR
      @-danR Před 7 lety +1

      I don't even remember writing this at all, and now there's the infamous youTube truncation. Perhaps a 'less than' symbol causes a glitch. So no idea what my typo was. Anyway, I figure the whole hand would vaporize in a thousandth of a second.

  • @MrMartinSchou
    @MrMartinSchou Před 10 lety +8

    300 megajoules of energy in the beam. 4.184 kJ in one gram of TNT. That is the equivalent of about 71 kg of TNT deposited into an extremely small area your hand.

  • @viksra
    @viksra Před 9 lety +30

    Can we please get an answer to the hand question? Solve it by putting a large watermelon in the beam's way and see what happens to the watermelon with a highly sensitive slow motion camera

    • @viksra
      @viksra Před 9 lety +15

      ***** Everything is wrong with what you just said. 1) It's not "immeasurably" expensive, it was $13.25 billion -- very measurable. 2) It's not for personal gratification, it's for science. These scientists admitted they don't know what would happen. It's something we're capable of doing, so why not? 3) LHC was created to get answers to theoretical questions, but here we have a question which we can easily find out the outcome to, and maybe end up with surprising results, but we don't know the answer because we haven't tried. 4) stop with the negative mindset, it is poisonous to mankind

    • @Sven-W
      @Sven-W Před 9 lety +2

      A few weeks ago we calculated how much energy there are in the two opposing beams, turns out they carry a kinetic energy similar to a 400t train going at 150 km/h. Apparently a very large problem was to make sure that in case any of the magnets would fail to function properly the beam could be directed to somewhere where it can be safely scattered, so it won't blast a hole into the walls

    • @stevemilwa
      @stevemilwa Před 9 lety +10

      You're all missing a bigger point, the watermelon would go in a vacuum, that alone would make it explode.

    • @zephyrxxx8792
      @zephyrxxx8792 Před 9 lety

      The melon would not explode though it would be fried and have no skin and there are holes but they are sealed with tight airlocks

    • @FooTheAwesome
      @FooTheAwesome Před 9 lety

      ***** sooo ifwe can somehow make a more compact version, we would be able to construct a new lhc? Large hadron cannon :D

  • @barnowl2832
    @barnowl2832 Před 9 měsíci

    "I don't think you'd feel very much"
    That could be interpreted two different ways! Wise answer

  • @adityakhaprelap
    @adityakhaprelap Před 3 lety

    It's so humbling to see such brilliant minds saying the words "I don't know". Why can't everybody be like this?

  • @IxousLouis
    @IxousLouis Před 10 lety +6

    Bugorski stuck his head in a particule accelerator and he survived !

    • @raphaelburnett6905
      @raphaelburnett6905 Před 5 lety +1

      yeah that was foolish of him

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 Před 5 lety

      @@raphaelburnett6905 In all fairness, it wasn't on purpose.

  • @communistwaffle6517
    @communistwaffle6517 Před 7 lety +30

    5:40 It's simple, you just put an unbounded vacuum inside a temporal field and wait for a universe to develop.

  • @grahamjoss4643
    @grahamjoss4643 Před 9 měsíci

    Love the format! Great perspective on different thinking styles

  • @RobertWilliams-mk8pl
    @RobertWilliams-mk8pl Před 4 lety +1

    I would love to have all of their knowledge and abilities of reasoning all rolled into one.

  • @jmr1068204
    @jmr1068204 Před 9 lety +13

    The beam would go through one side of you and out of the other side, as if you were speared by an invisible spear. This happened to Anatoli Bugorski.

    • @davidripley2916
      @davidripley2916 Před 2 lety +2

      That wasn't his hand dude, his freaking HEAD! He saw synchotron light and survived, the only human to see it. And it screwed him up.

  • @RaharijaoDavid
    @RaharijaoDavid Před 7 lety +6

    Basically , your hand will literally cease to exist

  • @jerryg50
    @jerryg50 Před 9 lety

    These scientists are amazing people. These are the type of people who of many years figured out the complex answers about how to develop the types of materials we use for all the high technology we use today. These people are geniuses.

  • @TubeUil
    @TubeUil Před 3 lety +4

    I miss these vids from sixty symbols with all the different points of view. I think this is such a great quality! It won't work with every subject maybe but to hear how each scientist thinks with their specific background and knowledge and the differences is so interesting to me. I'd love to see more of that with many more questions!

  • @MrMasterdavid
    @MrMasterdavid Před 7 lety +3

    Did they use the cover of Megadeth's Album "Super Collider" for the Thumbnail?

  • @SonarWavePulse
    @SonarWavePulse Před 9 lety +197

    What I got from this video:
    Girls are wet for infinity
    Thanks 60 symbols!

    • @mitchelmattera
      @mitchelmattera Před 9 lety +1

      SonarWavePulse xD

    • @TheFailOrNot
      @TheFailOrNot Před 9 lety +11

      They are all going for the science bewbs! xD

    • @StanleyZheng
      @StanleyZheng Před 6 lety

      How'd you get that?

    • @theblackhole05
      @theblackhole05 Před 6 lety +3

      The females weren't astrophysicist so I'm sure they didn't know all the symbols

    • @garoad2
      @garoad2 Před 5 lety

      @@theblackhole05 Ooh... that one's gonna hurt the SJWs...

  • @denysvlasenko9175
    @denysvlasenko9175 Před 7 lety +1

    It's surprising they need to guess. There were accidents in big accelerators where beams actually impacted on and damaged accelerator structure. Basically, the beam impacting matter heats the area it impacts on and cuts through anything, including steel. The cut is initially very narrow. With flesh, it would likely do the same - burn a narrow hole, or slice, through it, and continue damaging everything in its path for several meters.
    LHC also has the beam stop, the part where beams are intentionally dumped. It is a carbon cylinder about 1 meter wide and 7 meters long. When the entire beam hits it, it creates particle showers inside carbon, heating it to about 700 C. (Because of copious spallation, this carbon becomes radioactive, but surprisingly not by that much. You can stand beside it for many minutes and not die).

  • @therealshard
    @therealshard Před 8 lety

    I like how they readily said "I don't know" . That's humility. Much respect.

  • @johnd9357
    @johnd9357 Před 8 lety +3

    Well, this actually happened to a guy in Russia, except it was his head and not his hand. He lived, with minimal issue. Died in his 70s if I recall correctly. There was some damage, but nothing life threatening.

    • @lillonerboi504
      @lillonerboi504 Před 8 lety

      Other particle accelerators are nowhere near as strong as the LHC. You'd be annihilated immediately I'm guessing.

    • @nicklupo68
      @nicklupo68 Před 7 lety

      Cameron Petet

    • @nicklupo68
      @nicklupo68 Před 7 lety

      hhnv bank khuihftyijbvvnjooiuhj opp0 87ytyu I jgh n mjjkhvg j n

  • @bawbagstromash9452
    @bawbagstromash9452 Před 10 lety +3

    Rumour has it - this is now the preferred cooking method for McDonalds Apple Pies - the hottest portable heat source in the known universe....

  • @weskal5490
    @weskal5490 Před 6 lety +1

    I stood in front of the LHC beam once and they yelled "Get out you fool" but it just went in one ear and straight out of the other

  • @debrajdas4527
    @debrajdas4527 Před 8 lety

    Great question on the constants and forces.. will it be same again ? Wow. Never thought this way.

  • @Spandex08
    @Spandex08 Před 10 lety +6

    someone already put their head in a particle accelerator, not surprisingly it was a russian dude

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 Před 5 lety

      To be fair, it wasn't on purpose.

  • @bro9479
    @bro9479 Před 5 lety +3

    You would get super powers. Duh.

    • @jamescarter3196
      @jamescarter3196 Před 5 lety +2

      Totally, it's like superpower-steroids basically. I've got a friend who became a superhero recently called 'Saint Man'. It all started one day after an antimatter explosion at the Vatican, when he was bitten by a radioactive saint.

  • @swanbrown
    @swanbrown Před 8 lety

    π is my fave. I love circles, and curves. Also, it looks like a cute little critter running around.

  • @apocalypse359
    @apocalypse359 Před 8 lety +2

    Actually, my favorite symbols, aesthetically, are probably psi and phi. Very beautiful letters. In terms of most interesting meaning... Maybe gamma, the Lorentz factor? Relativity is fascinating. Just the fact that there's a universal speed limit where classical physics breaks down. Pretty big implications in electrodynamics as well, being built into Maxwell's equations.

  • @iBangersAndMash
    @iBangersAndMash Před 7 lety +4

    "That's like the energy of an aircraft carrier moving at 11 knots." How tf does he know that?

    • @randomrandom316
      @randomrandom316 Před 3 lety

      That is exactly what I was thinking watching the video. Does he just knows a bunch of random facts? Could be, but there is a decent chance he actually worked on some project involving an aircraft carrier, that in itself would make for an interesting video if true.

    • @sauercrowder
      @sauercrowder Před 3 lety +2

      He is probably used to explaining to students examples of kinetic energy to help them understand and for every order of magnitude already knows an example

    • @kphk3428
      @kphk3428 Před 2 lety

      Just like when he said "one fifth of a hair".

  • @ApollonianKing
    @ApollonianKing Před 8 lety +9

    If the sky was purple, would it weigh more?

    • @DoReMeDesign
      @DoReMeDesign Před 8 lety +37

      If +ApollonianKing stopped smoking weed, would there be 2 kg more for all of us?

    • @frank65972
      @frank65972 Před 8 lety

      Probably

    • @HaQuase30Anos
      @HaQuase30Anos Před 4 lety +1

      Hi. I came from the future. The year is 2020 and there is a pandemic out there. Long story short, I'm bored on my 20th day of isolation, watching old videos on youtube. So here it goes: Yes it would. The sky appears to be blue during daytime because the particles in earth's atmosphere scatters shorter wavelengths (blue) much more than longer wavelengths. However, when the sun is lower in the sky, light from the sun travels a much longer distance through the atmosphere and the blues get much closer to be completely scattered, hence the more purple/red sunsets. So, if the sky was purple during daytime, we could assume light was either travelling a longer distance or encountering higher number of particles, leading us to conclude the atmosphere would be bigger or denser, thus being heavier on either case.

    • @honest_bishop5905
      @honest_bishop5905 Před 3 lety

      @@HaQuase30Anos hey

  • @neelagrawal2512
    @neelagrawal2512 Před 3 lety +1

    I visited CERN with this question in mind. I asked the German professor showing us around there what would happen.
    His prompt reply:
    "You would find a small hole in the palm of your hand from the particle beam."

    • @christopherleubner6633
      @christopherleubner6633 Před 11 měsíci

      Then a few hours later the radiation sickness would hit. The high energy would cause all manner of nuclear radiation to be emitted as your flesh is abated by it.

  • @quantumme9938
    @quantumme9938 Před 9 lety

    Mass to Light Ratio! I love it

  • @scribejackhammar
    @scribejackhammar Před 8 lety +3

    Someone stuck their head in it by accident and lived.

  • @BrendanMX
    @BrendanMX Před 7 lety +74

    Why don't we just test this with a hand made from pig meat

    • @JamesSmith-gq7ru
      @JamesSmith-gq7ru Před 7 lety +73

      it would outrage the people/governments funding the billion dollar project if we did something as careless as put a piece of meat in there that could potentially destroy all of the equipment.

    • @lil_vault_boy4201
      @lil_vault_boy4201 Před 7 lety +12

      Unreal RNG But It's in the name of SCIENCE!

    • @PERFECTSelenaGomez
      @PERFECTSelenaGomez Před 7 lety +3

      Brendan MX or with a human corpse perhaps

    • @namename9846
      @namename9846 Před 6 lety +12

      A flat earther would also be a great candidate

    • @hunter.1
      @hunter.1 Před 6 lety +2

      Name Name ahahaha

  • @philiphe7402
    @philiphe7402 Před 9 měsíci

    the part about Dirac not knowing bra "had other connotations" rly had me laughing😂 exactly what I was thinking when I first learnt dirac formalism

  • @countolaf1920
    @countolaf1920 Před 7 lety +2

    Your hand will be transported to the age of the dinosaurs!

  • @MGlBlaze
    @MGlBlaze Před 9 lety +18

    There was actually an accident involving someone getting their head caught in a particle stream, in fact. They had a hole drilled straight through their head. They did actually survive, incredibly enough. Actually I think they are still alive today.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

    • @TravisLackey
      @TravisLackey Před 9 lety +4

      MGlBlaze I was going to bring this up myself. How none of these experts know of that story boggles the mind.

    • @Thumbsupurbum
      @Thumbsupurbum Před 9 lety +5

      Wow, not only did he survive, but he got a PhD after the incident. I was hoping he turned into something like Dr. Manhattan.

    • @Ichibuns
      @Ichibuns Před 9 lety +7

      MGlBlaze That beam was much much weaker than the LHC. If he almost dies from that one you would surely die from something as massive as the LHC. Proton beams are really just focused radiation.

    • @anelcor2264
      @anelcor2264 Před 9 lety

      Reminds me of the bite of 87' except ITS THE DRILL HAHAHA

    • @tomshraderd4915
      @tomshraderd4915 Před 9 lety +2

      MGlBlaze It's kind of sad, when the only thing you're known for is that you had a freak accident.

  • @youtubehandlesareridiculous

    Mythbusters episode waiting to happen. Just add some c4 and bam ultimate myth.

  • @matzoman3401
    @matzoman3401 Před 7 lety +1

    There is a video documentary of a russian engineer who stuck his head inside a particle accelerator while it was still running... its floating around somewhere here on youtube.

  • @RWBHere
    @RWBHere Před rokem

    Thanks for the lovely shaggy dog tale at the end. 🙂👍

  • @PhunkBustA
    @PhunkBustA Před 7 lety +50

    Æ
    i dont think its a math symbol but i like it

    • @saboo_tage
      @saboo_tage Před 7 lety +9

      move to a scandinavian country

    • @PhunkBustA
      @PhunkBustA Před 7 lety

      goo.gl/YyR2pb

    • @saboo_tage
      @saboo_tage Před 7 lety

      PhunkBustA I'm not clicking links

    • @PhunkBustA
      @PhunkBustA Před 7 lety

      fair enough, its just a meme of cpn jack sparrow lol wish youtube would give a thumbnail aye, but without clicking the link my reply was basically just "wut"

    • @saboo_tage
      @saboo_tage Před 7 lety +9

      PhunkBustA oh ok
      (for reference, what I meant was that scandinavian countries has the letters Ææ, Øø and Åå. If you like Æ, move here, we apparenly love it too

  • @TechKnowScope
    @TechKnowScope Před 8 lety +9

    You would think at some point, someone would have seen what would happen if you poked it with a stick... it just seems like human nature.

    • @lukatukas3087
      @lukatukas3087 Před 8 lety

      +Tech-Know Scope Go to school m8

    • @TechKnowScope
      @TechKnowScope Před 8 lety +2

      +Gvidas Danielius I'm actually working on my second degree. It has nothing to do with colliders though.

    • @lukatukas3087
      @lukatukas3087 Před 8 lety

      I have no clue why I wrote that, I can't see anything wrong with the comment :/

    • @TechKnowScope
      @TechKnowScope Před 8 lety

      Gvidas Danielius just as well, because I don't remember what my comment pertained to either. I skimmed through the video a few times and came up with nothing.

    • @JooJingleTHISISLEGIT
      @JooJingleTHISISLEGIT Před 8 lety +3

      +Tech-Know Scope
      Conclusion: You've both been in car accidents in the past week...
      Coincidence? I think not. It must have been the same one. And also it must have been coordinated by an insane roman general... ONE OF THE ONES THAT RULES THE WORLD!!!

  • @JakubSiemaszko1989
    @JakubSiemaszko1989 Před 5 lety +1

    What happens with the particles that have collided, do they disappear or do they need to be cleaned from inside the collider? How does it look like?

  • @PumpkinPanda-
    @PumpkinPanda- Před 7 lety

    Finally a video about questions I have!

  • @thecatsman
    @thecatsman Před 10 lety +6

    The Greek letter Υ (u in lower case) is 'ipsilon' not 'upsilon'

    • @Theo0x89
      @Theo0x89 Před 10 lety +1

      A real scientist prefers the ancient pronunciation, which is "üpsilon".

    • @JumpFirstLookLater1
      @JumpFirstLookLater1 Před 10 lety

      pronounced ipsilon, spelt upsilon

    • @DD-ur4rc
      @DD-ur4rc Před 10 lety

      It's upsilon.

    • @creamofbotulismsoup9900
      @creamofbotulismsoup9900 Před 10 lety

      Well to be more correct it is spelled "upsilon' but it is sometimes pronounced 'ipsilon'. Just depends on where your from really.

    • @tycho_m
      @tycho_m Před 10 lety +2

      oops-ilon...

  • @makuzitheinuk1856
    @makuzitheinuk1856 Před 8 lety +29

    So what about that Russian person that stuck his head in a particle accelerator.

    • @tonybparalegal
      @tonybparalegal Před 8 lety +2

      +Makuzi The Inuk Yes, Anatoli Burgowski. I was wondering why they never brought him up. His face swelled up beyond recognition, lost hearing in his left ear, lost feeling in his face....Also, that much radiation was supposed to have killed him.

    • @cowboycolts
      @cowboycolts Před 8 lety +4

      also the left side of his face never aged after that

    • @MrDendor
      @MrDendor Před 8 lety +5

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

    • @shahabsamkan4027
      @shahabsamkan4027 Před 4 lety

      He didnt stick his face in a particle accelarator intentionally, the safety mechanism failed

    • @captnodge
      @captnodge Před 4 lety

      Turned into the Hulk

  • @igivup4815
    @igivup4815 Před 6 lety +1

    I would love to see the episode, "What do we know NOW that Einstein didn't know then." That would be interesting and entertaining to see how these gents respond.

  • @Paxmax
    @Paxmax Před 9 lety

    As soon as that beam hit my hand, I'd get a irresistible urge to grunt "Hulk Smash!"

  • @someonethtneverexisted
    @someonethtneverexisted Před 10 lety +3

    am i the only person that noticed the thumbnail has megadeth's supercollider album art in it

  • @BuckyDK
    @BuckyDK Před 8 lety +18

    I really dont like how when asked a "If" question they immediatly say that it wont..
    youre scientists, understand hypothetical questions.

    • @terrmaci564
      @terrmaci564 Před 4 lety +1

      McManybucks ! But when the hypothesis is silly why not say “it won’t”?

  • @Mellowspark1
    @Mellowspark1 Před 8 lety +1

    We already have the Will it Blend, Crush etc.. channels. How about will it COLLIDE channel? Using the LHC to collide particles on objects we choose via the comment section on youtube. It will be a huge success!

  • @pathnode
    @pathnode Před 6 lety +1

    0:00 "Why do we have to wear these ridiculous ties?"

  • @jondoe6618
    @jondoe6618 Před 9 lety +3

    We're not allowed to make universes...hahahaha

  • @OCDustin
    @OCDustin Před 5 lety +13

    They’re creating infinity stones down there.
    I want one...

  • @brcarter1111
    @brcarter1111 Před 7 lety

    Apparently there was a Russian physicist named Anatoli Bugorski who was working with an early particle accelerator called the U-70 synchrotron in 1978, when a safety mechanism on the device failed and fired a 76GeV beam of protons directly through his head! Although Bugorski was not killed by the beam, he did suffer some neurological symptoms such as partial paralysis of his face and occasional seizures. This injury did not handicap him intellectually, and he even finished his PhD.

  • @mh27409
    @mh27409 Před 4 lety +2

    You wouldn't be able to, it's inside a vacuum chamber, i.e. the beam pipe. I did learn something surprising once; if you pass a 200 keV beam of protons through a thin carbon foil (about 40 atoms thick), it won't even generate a decent hydrogen spectrum. The LHC is running at 3*10^9 times more energy than the 200 keV beam I just described; and the odds of interaction goes down as the energy goes up; I would bet not much would happen from the beam itself. Now someone mentioned the synchrotron radiation being produced; that might be enough to fry your hand.

  • @stevenblack268
    @stevenblack268 Před 7 lety +3

    You would turn into the incredible hulk of course!

  • @jazzieman9687
    @jazzieman9687 Před 8 lety +37

    My brain once tried to understand infinity............. it did not work out well.

    • @fizzicist7678
      @fizzicist7678 Před 8 lety +1

      +jazzie man For me at the moment I see it as a tool more than anything because it doesn't have much of a numerical meaning. It does help out a lot to understand how a function works as you increase numbers to decrease them down to 0.

    • @CaptianKeyz
      @CaptianKeyz Před 8 lety

      +jazzie man There are ways to experience it first hand. I wouldn't say I understand it, but have seen its beauty.

    • @tyleramon8371
      @tyleramon8371 Před 8 lety

      The world we live in now, is infinity. We live in Infinite Infinity. O.O mind = blown.

    • @fizzicist7678
      @fizzicist7678 Před 8 lety +1

      Tyler Amon infinity to the power infinity to the power infinity to the power infinity....

    • @RStaRaptoR
      @RStaRaptoR Před 8 lety

      +Toughen Up, Fluffy my man-sausage loves infinities!!!

  • @jaracimrdman9059
    @jaracimrdman9059 Před 7 lety

    Well, something similar happened accidentaly in SSSR in 1978. Google Anatoli Bugorski accident. It was a scientist checking broken part of equipment while some safety circuit failed and 76GeV proton beam passed through his head. He survived, but with serious consequences. He got deaf on one ear, half of his face remained paralyzed and he suffers epilepsy because of scarification of the brain tissue.

  • @MrEyee2
    @MrEyee2 Před 7 lety +1

    0:49 - That's me trying to answer a physics question in final exams. LOL! and so a meme was born.

  • @TJonLongIsland
    @TJonLongIsland Před 8 lety +6

    When I look at the symbol for infinity, I see a Pringle..

  • @2Spookeh4Me
    @2Spookeh4Me Před 8 lety +5

    Why do you think the women like the infinity symbol?

  • @Petr75661
    @Petr75661 Před 8 lety

    Such an experiment would certainly be worthy of an Ig Nobel Prize.

  • @trentcox2714
    @trentcox2714 Před 4 lety

    Depends on the where and at what time after the initiation cycle it was placed in the beam path. The dang thing is like 20 mi in circumference.

  • @Demidar
    @Demidar Před 8 lety +16

    as a man who has felt radiation first hand - iknow how radiation waves feel to get into your head, this is not xray but gamma ray's - It feels like if you've slept on your arm and it starts to wake up that needle feeling, and you taste almost like some sort of metallic taste on your tounge, and you get some weird flashes in your vision. Other than that you get a little nausia afterwards and its over

    • @mario6279
      @mario6279 Před 8 lety +8

      how did you experience radiation poisoning

    • @DiamondSane
      @DiamondSane Před 8 lety +1

      +Cyndasaur well, I do know this. The killing effect is stochastic, all numbers are average.

    • @EndreaDaCosta
      @EndreaDaCosta Před 8 lety

      +Casper sanderson Savage,

    • @mojorichie
      @mojorichie Před 7 lety +5

      Probably under a Gamma Knife for Cancer treatment like a brain tumor.

    • @nupplets5785
      @nupplets5785 Před 7 lety +2

      That's interesting.

  • @mindlessreader1595
    @mindlessreader1595 Před 9 lety +4

    PUT A COOKIE IN IT

  • @aki3774
    @aki3774 Před 8 lety +1

    The probability of interaction (ionization) with the electrons of human tissue is the lower the faster the protons move. So probably very little ionization occurs. I think most of the beam just passes trough, but rare collisions with the nucleus of the hand tissue atoms probably creates some (very interesting) high energy particles that radiate away. Because the probability of an individual proton to hit a nucles is relatively small, I bet that the tissue just starts to break down evenly within the volume of the beam.

    • @cowboycolts
      @cowboycolts Před 8 lety

      well some Russian guy stuck his head in one
      there was brain damage and lost in hearing in his left ear
      but strangely
      the left side of his face never aged after that

  • @ividboy7616
    @ividboy7616 Před 5 lety +1

    sounds like a superhero origin story