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Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe)

Posted by timothy on from the look-at-me-look-at-me dept.

jamie points out this piece from always-entertaining Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, who asks this week the simple question "What happens if you put your hand in the beam of the Large Hadron Collider?" The thrill of discovery to me doesn't sound worth the worst-case scenario.

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  1. Acrylic... by Freddybear · · Score: 5, Interesting

    An artist makes unusual "sculptures" by putting acrylic blocks into the beam path of a relatively small electron accelerator:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1232908/Captured-lightning-The-artist-traps-fossilised-bolts-electricity-inside-acrylic-blocks.html