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Has anyone noticed there is a 100% survival rate of sticking your head in a proton accelerator because the only person to do it survived...

I like how he took a blast from a fucking particle accellerator and went like "hm, thats not good" then finished work and went home. Thats all kinds of boss shit

His reaction to the accident-just going home for the day and not telling anybody-is so Russian of him.

I find it kind of hilarious that you could just open a door into a wildly dangerous science experiment like “whoops this isn’t the bathroom”

"After seeing a thousands suns Bugorski knew he was in trouble". So of course he did the obvious rational thing and went home to sleep it off.

The only man to ever wrap his head around particle physics.

This year is a momentous occasion for me. It is the 49th year in a row that I have not stuck my head in a proton accelerator. I'm really hoping to keep that streak alive. I'm working towards that goal every day.

“I’m being tested. The human capacity for survival is being tested.” That’s such a heartbreaking thing to hear from someone going through something like this

So, he was a victim of a workplace accident, kept working, logged his work and left. Dude deserves the employee of the millennium award.

"I shouldn't lock the door. It's not like anything bad will happen" -A very wrong scientist

What continues to amaze me is that after all this time, Bugorski is still alive to this day! He outlived one of the most powerful particle accelerators in the world! What a legend

My head getting randomly stuck in a particle accelerator has actually been one of my greatest fears since I was a child.

Wife: "Honey, how was work today?" Antaloi: "Fine" * insane interstellar visions and sounds going on inside his head *

"Your brain doesn't have enough stopping power" sounds like a sick burn.

That's why failsafe maesures take the approach of fail by default. The correct procedure with the light bulb should be safe if ON, not OFF. That would prevent access if the bulb or the circuits connected to it fail.

Bro I gotta say. I wish everyone narrated stuff like this. It seems everyone gets so hyped about everything and they put way to much energy into just explaining something. It's a huge refresher to have calmly narrated content. Very good video.

"missing critical brain areas" i like to consider all my brain areas critical thank you very much

My stepdad had a non-cancerous brain tumor that was pressing in his skull in a way that was giving him seizures and made him completely deaf in his right ear. He ended up getting proton therapy, and the beam literally punched a hole through the tumor and it fell in on itself. He's seizure free now and has regained some hearing. Science is fucking amazing dude.

Finally someone who was able to get particle physics through their thick skull.

getting shot in the head with a proton accelerator but not telling anyone and just going home is very getting bit by a zombie but not telling anyone kind of energy

Bugorski: Gets a beam of near light speed particles straight through his head Bugorski: Oh no! Anyway

You know whats even more Gigachad about Burgorski? He outlived the particle accelerator.

A bit off topic, but I just want to say how grateful I am for you giving the numbers in metric system as well. I can't convert imperial units to metric in my head, and pausing the video every now and then just to check is a pain in the a$s, so having it shown on the screen is REALLY convenient and helpful. Thank you for that, that's so thoughtful.

He defended his PHD after having a proton shot through his forehead. I have to call out of work when I get a tummy ache. Respect.

what i’ve learned is that if you work with any sort of radiation, and you get a gut feeling of impending doom, you listen to that gut

Most russian thing ever: Puts his head into a particle accelerator and a beam of light "1000 suns strong" goes through his head, journals his work, finishes everything, goes home and goes to sleep like nothing happened!

if anyone is wondering, Burgorski is still alive and is turning 82 this june

I only spent 48 hours working on a neutron beam in the UK. I was responsible for placing our samples directly in the beam pit on our neutron beam coming off the Rutherford Appleton lab's accelerator. There were a ton of safety interlocks culminating in two keys further apart than a single person could turn to free the path to the beam. Gates only opened when a huge concrete block cut off our beam. But what puzzles me is that on our neutron beam it was easy to hear and even see as a blue glow coming from the beam if one looked down onto it as it entered and exited our apparatus. Not sure what a Proton beam would do differently but I find it hard to understand it wouldn't be audible and visible as it interacted with air.

Ironically the beam being SO POWERFUL meant it did LESS damage than it could have

He finished his job and then went home without saying a word. Our ability to deny reality is astonishing.

Props to the editor for simulating the "thousand suns" to the best of their ability. I was sitting in the dark while watching this lol

How did this not turn him into a supervillain.

Here's a life tip, kids: If you have doubts about something, walk away. Don't do it. Don't go in the creepy cellar. Don't grab that weird thing. Don't LICK that weird thing. Don't answer that phone call. Don't talk to that strange guy beckoning to you from the "Free Candy!" van. And most of all, DON'T WALK INTO THE PARTICLE ACCELERATOR.

The craziest thing about this whole thing is how Bugorski is still alive to this day, and actually outlived the particle accelerator that caused his accident.

Ngl "death by particle accelerator" sounds kinda epic

9:21 "Anatoli's brain matter literally did not have the stopping power to bring the beam's high-energy protons to a stop, and to create a Bragg peak inside of his skull." Sick burn!!! 🔥🔥🔥

"He felt no pain" These Russians are built different

"Hey doctor I have a problem." "What's the problem?" "I accidentally stuck my head in the most powerfull particle accerlerator in the country yesterday." "Wh- "

"through his brain, skin, and skull" hopefully not in that order lol

Great narration skills, highly informative. Thank you for your content!

Anatoli Bugorski is still alive, 78 years old. Let's all wish him many more years of health.

After the incident... He finished his work and went home. JESUS CHRIST Those Russian's are machines

It's amazing to hear. Thanks for such a knowledgeable documentary.

What I find hilarious is this guy had a proton travelling at the speed of light go straight through his brain and his response is I’ll go home and sleep it off

Wife: How was your day honey? Bugorski: I accidentally stuck my head in the particle accelerator and saw 1000 suns. Wife: I thought you were a bit quiet tonight

Imagine you're one of the only few people in the world who has a grasp on what's happening in this machine. What in the world are you even supposed to tell the doc at the hospital?

Every household used to have a particle accelerator, it's called a television Those old tube TVs uses an electron gun to light up the screen's phosphor, and at high enough voltages it could create X-rays (though most TVs has protection built in to prevent this)

I’m assuming you gain super powers if you put your head in a particle accelerator.

Those particals have quite the balls to approach a Russian like that

I can't wrap my head around a lot of wire, but I CAN wrap a lot of wire around my head.

I JUST LOVE THESE TYPE OF INFORMATIONAL VIDEOS MAN!!! GIVES VIBES OF LEMMINO VIDEOS

Dude is effectively the first guy ever shot by a real laser

the human body: can be killed with a slight bump to the head also the human body: survives getting shot with a proton beam brighter than 1000 suns and more radioactive than Chernobyl itself

That's why it's a good idea to have an "it is now safe to enter" light instead (or in addition to the "do not enter" light), so a failure in the equipment preserves safety instead of compromising it.

"Bugorski's brain literally didn't have the density [to stop the beam]" is a goddamn sick burn

Hey Kyle! Been listening to your half life stories videos. Really fascinating! And you narration is so calm, and the soothing background music. I actually use them for calming down just before i go to sleep aswell. Have you thought about making some sleep stories? I think that could be some awesome videos for people having trouble falling asleep like me. Big Thanks! You helped me fall asleep much faster many times! And have taught me alot about nuclear power. 😁

That final quote “I am being tested. Human survivability is being tested” chilling beyond words

Doctor: "so you saw 1000 suns at the time of the incident?" Anatoli: "Yes" Doctor. "I see" *doodles a tombstone in his notepad*

Thanks for the tutorial!

The only man to ever see the light of a thousand suns: 'Aight Ima head out now....'

Bugorski: Gets blasted by proton beam faster than what most black holes can produce. Bugorski: *Just another day in the office* finishes the job goes home and sleeps.

"Anatoli's brain matter literally did not have the stopping power to bring the beam's high energy protons to a stop." Why does that sound like a roast

This man took an accelerated particle beam to the dome and still finished his work. Bravo.

Damn You're so good! Your phrase - Human capacity of survilval is being tested blasted my brain! Thank You!

*_Gets blasted by a lethal device_* Bugorski: “‘Tis but a scratch”

Kyle: "Why didn't he die?" Me: "Why didn't he get super powers? Reality sucks."

It's amazing that he survived the primordial forces of the universe going through his head.

i see this as an absolute win for the science of "what would happen if you stuck your head in a particle accelerator while it was on" branch of particle physics.

The eternal question: Are you lucky for having survived a plethora of horrible events, or unlucky for having the events happen to you in the first place?

Incredible. My 8 year old had 32 sessions of proton beam therapy for a tumour in her head. Saved her life.

Imagine having a meeting with your employees and being like “ok who left the door to the particle accelerator unlocked 🤦”

I thought there was no way he could have lived through that but WOW. Humans are weird.

2:15 Anatoli had the brightest mind of them all. For a moment.

Anatoly: Sir, I've been struck by 7 billion Ev of energy. Boss: Not great, not terrible. Carry on.

''Hm, today i should put my head in a particle accelerator.''

Not only he was one of the few who understand what could have happened but probably most of this facility purpose and technology was classified. I'm not even surprised he had a problem with getting admitted to the hospital and that doctors didn't believe him. He couldn't say much besides "I'm almost positive that I have received lethal dose of radiation and I'm starting to experience radiation sickness, I can't tell you details it is classified."

“Hi, I’m Johnny Knoxville, and I’m about to put my head through a particle accelerator.”

Dude literally took the term "walk it off" to a whole new level

Now that is what u call "putting all your thoughts into particle physics" ;) 😊

If this guy lived in a comic-book universe he would've become the Soviet Doctor Manhattan.

That last bit: "When he was a baby, he survived being thrown out of a window into the snow...BY NAZIS!" Bloody hell, man 😯

Great video!! 👍

Bro this story always throws my brain for a loop that’s just incredibly profound

I love how I’m looking at these graphs like I even remotely understand them.

Murphy's Law: You live through something that should have given you superpowers but all you got was this shxxty headache that won't go away...

He became a villain of the week

I very much enjoy you and your videos. Just commenting to boost you.

People call in sick to work cause they stubbed their toe getting out of bed that morning, this dude took a nuclear beam to the face and kept working. Badass.

I'm just amazed his retinas, eyeballs and optic nerves still worked after that. Imagine seeing a thousand suns and then just go back to work the next day like everything's fine.

Please put these dark science stories into their own playlist. I need something to listen to that's calm, but interesting.

I love how he knew shit hit the fan but still kept working like it was another day.

Who would win: the most complicated machine that exists vs a scientist who walks fast and a burnt out light bulb

The classifying of information of treatment convinced me he actually got super power

He really let the intrusive thoughts win huh

"Only half of his forehead wrinkles" *The Kardashians have entered the chat*

Anatoly's wife: "How was your day at work, dear?" Anatoly: "Okay, I guess. Have you got a paracetamol anywhere?"

Is no one going to talk about that lone lightbulb’s abject failure and the guilt it undoubtedly felt for the rest of its life?

Excellent video! So interesting (and sad) to hear about his battle for compensation. Where is he now? Did want to add a bit of clarification - 70GeV protons don't lose their energy in the way that ~MeV particles do. At thee energies, they will tend to interact with atomic nuclei and smash them apart. They then produce many other subatomic particles (pions, kaons, etc) which go on to induce further reactions. The process is known as deep inelastic scattering. This continues until the average particle energy is of order 1 GeV, at which point the energy per particle is not enough to break nucleons apart - and ionisation losses begin to take over. In this high-energy regime, energy losses tend to be exponential - protons lose a fraction of their energy in each interaction, with a characteristic length known as the "interaction length" between each interaction. It's actually really difficult to find data on this, since nobody in their right mind radiates humans with ~70 GeV protons! (I made some simulations once with 100 GeV protons for geant 3.21 once, can't find the data now though...) Typically however, the proton interaction length in the human body would be of the order of tens of cm, meaning that I expect these protons, and their secondary particles, deposited a significant fraction of their energy in the guy's brain (say, 10%?). While I'm not a medical physicist, I expect the main reason he did not die is that most radiation poisoning occurs when the entire body is irradiated, destroying (for instance!) the ability of the body to replenish the immune system. However, here, 99.9% of his body was fine. It was just a relatively small part that got completely ****ed.

“I PUT HEAD IN PARTICLE ACCELERATOR” “NOT RECOMMEND” -Russian dude who saw God