Large Hadron Collider

mks2005 said:
What would happen if the fully accelerated particle beam was fired at a human?
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Well as the emergancy system diverts the beam into 5 meters of solid concrete, I'm guessing the technical answer is "a mess".

I imagine the particles would colide with the molecules of your body, ripping them apart leaving a small hole in you, but I'm not sure of the extent of the damage.

And before the conspiricy theorists start thinking "aha, so this was military research into a superweapon" you couldnt really mount a particle accelerator and its required power supply on a tank, and in an atmosphere the particle beam would just collide with molecules in the air before actually hitting it's target.

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So the person would have to stand smack bang up against the emitter if any particles were to get to the target rather than collide with the air...
 
misterPK said:
And before the conspiricy theorists start thinking "aha, so this was military research into a superweapon" you couldnt really mount a particle accelerator and its required power supply on a tank, and in an atmosphere the particle beam would just collide with molecules in the air before actually hitting it's target.
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[tinfoilhat]not yet you can't....[/tinfoilhat]
 
Lysander said:
How? I'm not being argumentative, I'm genuinely interested to know.
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Know what? Sorry if I've misunderstood, but did you mean to quote me?

Also, I was at CERN last November, and was standing next to the ATLAS detector, and I can tell you that it certainly is an impressive piece of kit:eek:
 
jr1104 said:
Know what? Sorry if I've misunderstood, but did you mean to quote me?

Also, I was at CERN last November, and was standing next to the ATLAS detector, and I can tell you that it certainly is an impressive piece of kit:eek:
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No no, I meant to quote you. I was wondering how the LHC has given us MRI scanners, etc etc. Was the research into building it relevant to those kinds of machines as well?
 
Sorry. Yes, the detectors which are used in CERN where being researched about 30 years ago. These detectors where then downsized, and used in MRI scanners to detect the protons being emitted from the human body. The article on MRI on wikipedia tells you more about how it actually helps in terms of medical practice, but the ability to detect emitted protons what makes these sensors so useful.

There is some more information here if you are interested: http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/28507
 
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jidh007 said:
So the world didn't end then. Unless we're now living in an alternate reality.
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One of the screens here that is almost entirely green has got a few spots of red on it. That means a few magnets are a bit warmer than they should be.
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It appears they had the problem with the cryogenics at 4 this morning but it came right in time. It could have been very different as the head of acceleration points out you really don't know what is going to happen.
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;)

That's re-assuring.
 
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