What happens when you stick your head inside a particle accelerator and get hit with a beam of trillions of protons? Well, if you’re Anatoli Bugorski, you go on to finish your PhD.
If You Stuck Your Head in a Particle Accelerator ...
(We don't recommend it.)
A technician works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. (Credit: Anna Pantelia/CERN)
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