Putting your hand in the Large Hadron Collider...

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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 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 8 лет назад +2393

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

    • @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557
      @thepussygrabbingfamilyvalu557 8 лет назад +473

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

    • @mrghostdlm1386
      @mrghostdlm1386 8 лет назад +39

      Carl Coppens Yeah politicians lies a lot !!!

    • @zhoupact8567
      @zhoupact8567 8 лет назад +66

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

    • @DaKnightsofawesome
      @DaKnightsofawesome 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад +4

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

  • @charleshill3802
    @charleshill3802 5 лет назад +406

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

    • @davidripley2916
      @davidripley2916 2 года назад +2

      Let them. For Science and Humanity.
      And lols 💥

    • @stefipaudinbasterdatlarge.7769
      @stefipaudinbasterdatlarge.7769 Год назад

      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 Год назад +1

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

    • @rauminen4167
      @rauminen4167 Год назад +1

      "hand"

  • @Dontworryboutit247
    @Dontworryboutit247 8 лет назад +1813

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

  • @BrettCaton
    @BrettCaton 5 лет назад +479

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

    • @TheLegitAlpha
      @TheLegitAlpha 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +13

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

    • @N.M.E.
      @N.M.E. 4 года назад +6

      Well... you may now!

    • @scfog90
      @scfog90 3 года назад

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

    • @amjadhussaindanish1974
      @amjadhussaindanish1974 3 года назад

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

  • @bushputz
    @bushputz 10 лет назад +538

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

    • @Ibrahim-nz4hy
      @Ibrahim-nz4hy 6 лет назад +2

      bushputz lol

    • @hassanshezad6273
      @hassanshezad6273 5 лет назад +10

      Or you could probably create the infinity gauntlet 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @migram4190
      @migram4190 5 лет назад +2

      😭😭😭😭😭😭

    • @Volundur9567
      @Volundur9567 2 года назад +1

      Anatoli Bugorski: Hold my vodka

  • @matteobaisotti1398
    @matteobaisotti1398 7 лет назад +520

    There would be a huge lag spike

  • @nico118118
    @nico118118 7 лет назад +509

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

  • @Stahlwollvieh
    @Stahlwollvieh 9 лет назад +147

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

    • @RedHairdo
      @RedHairdo 8 лет назад +26

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

    • @Stahlwollvieh
      @Stahlwollvieh 8 лет назад +9

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

    • @4mn10n
      @4mn10n 4 года назад +5

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

    • @sgdgsc3236
      @sgdgsc3236 3 года назад

      Proton beam passed through his brain.

    • @sauercrowder
      @sauercrowder 3 года назад +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 9 лет назад +659

    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 8 лет назад +124

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

  • @napoleon_bonaparte2462
    @napoleon_bonaparte2462 7 лет назад +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 7 лет назад +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 7 лет назад

      Kizron Kizronson link?

    • @KevynDaquin
      @KevynDaquin 7 лет назад +2

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

    • @tomdunphy6865
      @tomdunphy6865 7 лет назад +3

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

    • @jasperfk
      @jasperfk 7 лет назад +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.

  • @ThrottleKitty
    @ThrottleKitty 7 лет назад +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 7 лет назад +18

      i'm in love with you.

    • @aimerielbe7505
      @aimerielbe7505 7 лет назад +12

      That last part lol😂

    • @iwanabana
      @iwanabana 7 лет назад +8

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

    • @mayurchoudhari3372
      @mayurchoudhari3372 7 лет назад

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

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 7 лет назад +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!

  • @LCdrDerrick
    @LCdrDerrick 9 лет назад +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 3 года назад +1

      He also suffered from seizures

    • @brunnomenxa
      @brunnomenxa 11 месяцев назад +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.

  • @aidanrobichaud-ward9796
    @aidanrobichaud-ward9796 10 лет назад +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.

  • @mickenoss
    @mickenoss 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +111

      Yeah found it. Anatoli Bugorski was his name =)

    • @kcys34
      @kcys34 9 лет назад +7

      mickenoss Wow, thanks for sharing ;]

    • @westleykana
      @westleykana 9 лет назад

      :O ll

    • @EvelynDayless
      @EvelynDayless 9 лет назад +37

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

    • @qwerfa
      @qwerfa 9 лет назад +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 4 года назад +21

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

  • @SuperSaltyFries
    @SuperSaltyFries 9 лет назад +263

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

    • @351cleavland
      @351cleavland 9 лет назад +39

      SuperSaltyFries French fries do the same thing!

    • @trickycat3438
      @trickycat3438 8 лет назад +2

      Jack Jewell and they are made of particals

    • @darkzap10
      @darkzap10 8 лет назад

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

    • @hermest99
      @hermest99 8 лет назад

      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 8 лет назад +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

  • @TestMeatDollSteak
    @TestMeatDollSteak 10 лет назад +135

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

    • @no1rory466
      @no1rory466 6 лет назад +1

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

    • @erniefacio5532
      @erniefacio5532 6 лет назад +12

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

  • @theSUICIDEfox
    @theSUICIDEfox 7 лет назад +113

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

    • @muffntheB
      @muffntheB 5 лет назад +9

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

    • @alexmsevans
      @alexmsevans 5 лет назад +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 4 года назад +1

      @Dreamstate U are not clever 😂

    • @LordZordid
      @LordZordid 4 года назад

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

    • @BuGGyBoBerl
      @BuGGyBoBerl 4 года назад +4

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

  • @Grumplefut
    @Grumplefut 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @tophtml1
    @tophtml1 9 лет назад +57

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

    • @SpiritMolecule
      @SpiritMolecule 9 лет назад +1

      tophtml1 looool

    • @holeskoj
      @holeskoj 9 лет назад +1

      tophtml1 Comment of the year.

    • @zapdog_
      @zapdog_ 9 лет назад +1

      You have just won the internet.

    • @jimstone3014
      @jimstone3014 9 лет назад +1

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

    • @tophtml1
      @tophtml1 9 лет назад +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

  • @Barnacules
    @Barnacules 11 лет назад +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!

  • @kostasjurkevicius6156
    @kostasjurkevicius6156 8 лет назад +134

    thats how we get superpowers

    • @NoLoveDeepWebbb
      @NoLoveDeepWebbb 8 лет назад +22

      +Kostas Jurkevicius and cancer.

    • @husk5373
      @husk5373 8 лет назад +1

      +NoLove DeepWebbb it has a cost

    • @lenguamuerto
      @lenguamuerto 8 лет назад +2

      the real life Dr. Manhattan

  • @blueisnotgreen7258
    @blueisnotgreen7258 4 года назад +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.”

  • @digimbyte
    @digimbyte 10 лет назад +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 6 лет назад +1

      Fake news

    • @Maogaw
      @Maogaw 6 лет назад

      .

    • @vapenation7061
      @vapenation7061 6 лет назад

      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 5 лет назад

      iamawatermelon Anatoli Bugorski.

  • @robertyang4365
    @robertyang4365 9 лет назад +893

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

    • @lickytime9683
      @lickytime9683 9 лет назад +6

      *yawn.....YAWN..........YᎪᏔN.............🅨🅐🅦🅝 🅨🅐🅦🅝 🅕🅤🅒🅜🅘🅝🅗 🅨🅐🅦🅝 🅣🅗🅐🅨 🅦🅐🅢 🅐 🅢🅗🅘🅣 🅙🅞🅚🅔 🅙🅤🅢🅣 🅚🅝🅞🅦

    • @JohnnyTromboner
      @JohnnyTromboner 9 лет назад +2

      Ohho.wav

    • @StopFear
      @StopFear 8 лет назад +18

      More like My Large Hard On Collider

    • @johnamil2342
      @johnamil2342 8 лет назад +1

      +StopFear AHAHAHAHAAA

    • @MaxPare
      @MaxPare 8 лет назад +4

      hue hue hue hue.

  • @jajajajanej
    @jajajajanej 5 лет назад +3

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

  • @PopeCannabis
    @PopeCannabis 5 лет назад +9

    I love how passionate they seem about their work

  • @viksra
    @viksra 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +10

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

    • @zephyrxxx8792
      @zephyrxxx8792 9 лет назад

      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 9 лет назад

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

  • @giulio2lavendetta
    @giulio2lavendetta 10 лет назад +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

  • @grahamjoss4643
    @grahamjoss4643 9 месяцев назад

    Love the format! Great perspective on different thinking styles

  • @th3thin9
    @th3thin9 8 лет назад +29

    The thumbnail is Megadeth's Supercollider album art!

  • @MrMartinSchou
    @MrMartinSchou 10 лет назад +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.

  • @-danR
    @-danR 7 лет назад +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 7 лет назад

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

    • @-danR
      @-danR 7 лет назад +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.

  • @mindtreat
    @mindtreat 5 лет назад +46

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

    • @CalvinHikes
      @CalvinHikes 5 лет назад +1

      Today I learned I do want to.

    • @thejbo777
      @thejbo777 4 года назад

      Or do you?

    • @lowkeyswe2260
      @lowkeyswe2260 4 года назад +1

      @@thejbo777 (vsauce music starts playing)

  • @jerryg50
    @jerryg50 9 лет назад

    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.

  • @Dremos77
    @Dremos77 9 лет назад +388

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

    • @backseatslidepuzzle
      @backseatslidepuzzle 9 лет назад +17

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

    • @johnnysantos3997
      @johnnysantos3997 7 лет назад +27

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

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 6 лет назад +6

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

    • @DaveDablave
      @DaveDablave 6 лет назад +2

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

    • @benparker2321
      @benparker2321 6 лет назад +2

      This is a normie fest

  • @SonarWavePulse
    @SonarWavePulse 9 лет назад +197

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

    • @mitchelmattera
      @mitchelmattera 9 лет назад +1

      SonarWavePulse xD

    • @TheFailOrNot
      @TheFailOrNot 9 лет назад +11

      They are all going for the science bewbs! xD

    • @StanleyZheng
      @StanleyZheng 6 лет назад

      How'd you get that?

    • @theblackhole05
      @theblackhole05 6 лет назад +3

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

    • @garoad2
      @garoad2 5 лет назад

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

  • @MrFivefivefivesix
    @MrFivefivefivesix 8 лет назад +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.

  • @adityakhaprelap
    @adityakhaprelap 3 года назад

    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 10 лет назад +6

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

    • @raphaelburnett6905
      @raphaelburnett6905 5 лет назад +1

      yeah that was foolish of him

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 5 лет назад

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

  • @ThePictoucounty
    @ThePictoucounty 10 лет назад +14

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

  • @denysvlasenko9175
    @denysvlasenko9175 7 лет назад +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).

  • @neelagrawal2512
    @neelagrawal2512 3 года назад +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 11 месяцев назад

      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.

  • @TubeUil
    @TubeUil 3 года назад +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!

  • @communistwaffle6517
    @communistwaffle6517 7 лет назад +30

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

  • @therealshard
    @therealshard 8 лет назад

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

  • @barnowl2832
    @barnowl2832 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @RaharijaoDavid
    @RaharijaoDavid 7 лет назад +6

    Basically , your hand will literally cease to exist

  • @jmr1068204
    @jmr1068204 9 лет назад +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 2 года назад +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.

  • @debrajdas4527
    @debrajdas4527 8 лет назад

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

  • @countolaf1920
    @countolaf1920 7 лет назад +2

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

  • @johnd9357
    @johnd9357 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад

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

    • @nicklupo68
      @nicklupo68 7 лет назад

      Cameron Petet

    • @nicklupo68
      @nicklupo68 7 лет назад

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

  • @MurphyMonster
    @MurphyMonster 8 лет назад +14

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

  • @apocalypse359
    @apocalypse359 8 лет назад +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.

  • @swanbrown
    @swanbrown 7 лет назад

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

  • @bawbagstromash9452
    @bawbagstromash9452 10 лет назад +3

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

  • @iBangersAndMash
    @iBangersAndMash 7 лет назад +4

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

    • @randomrandom316
      @randomrandom316 3 года назад

      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 3 года назад +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 2 года назад

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

  • @RobertWilliams-mk8pl
    @RobertWilliams-mk8pl 4 года назад +1

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

  • @weskal5490
    @weskal5490 6 лет назад +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

  • @bro9479
    @bro9479 5 лет назад +3

    You would get super powers. Duh.

    • @jamescarter3196
      @jamescarter3196 5 лет назад +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.

  • @BrendanMX
    @BrendanMX 7 лет назад +74

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

    • @JamesSmith-gq7ru
      @JamesSmith-gq7ru 7 лет назад +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 7 лет назад +12

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

    • @PERFECTSelenaGomez
      @PERFECTSelenaGomez 7 лет назад +3

      Brendan MX or with a human corpse perhaps

    • @namename9846
      @namename9846 6 лет назад +12

      A flat earther would also be a great candidate

    • @hunter.1
      @hunter.1 6 лет назад +2

      Name Name ahahaha

  • @philiphe7402
    @philiphe7402 9 месяцев назад

    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

  • @brcarter1111
    @brcarter1111 7 лет назад

    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.

  • @MGlBlaze
    @MGlBlaze 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +4

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

    • @Thumbsupurbum
      @Thumbsupurbum 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад +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 9 лет назад

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

    • @tomshraderd4915
      @tomshraderd4915 9 лет назад +2

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

  • @Spandex08
    @Spandex08 9 лет назад +6

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

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 5 лет назад

      To be fair, it wasn't on purpose.

  • @igivup4815
    @igivup4815 6 лет назад +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.

  • @PumpkinPanda-
    @PumpkinPanda- 7 лет назад

    Finally a video about questions I have!

  • @MrMasterdavid
    @MrMasterdavid 7 лет назад +3

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

  • @TechKnowScope
    @TechKnowScope 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад

      +Tech-Know Scope Go to school m8

    • @TechKnowScope
      @TechKnowScope 8 лет назад +2

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

    • @lukatukas3087
      @lukatukas3087 8 лет назад

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

    • @TechKnowScope
      @TechKnowScope 8 лет назад

      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 8 лет назад +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!!!

  • @LameGeneration91
    @LameGeneration91 7 лет назад

    These are great questions.
    Thanks! :)

  • @Paxmax
    @Paxmax 9 лет назад

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

  • @ApollonianKing
    @ApollonianKing 8 лет назад +9

    If the sky was purple, would it weigh more?

    • @DoReMeDesign
      @DoReMeDesign 8 лет назад +37

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

    • @frank65972
      @frank65972 8 лет назад

      Probably

    • @HaQuase30Anos
      @HaQuase30Anos 4 года назад +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 3 года назад

      @@HaQuase30Anos hey

  • @PhunkBustA
    @PhunkBustA 7 лет назад +50

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

    • @saboo_tage
      @saboo_tage 7 лет назад +9

      move to a scandinavian country

    • @PhunkBustA
      @PhunkBustA 7 лет назад

      goo.gl/YyR2pb

    • @saboo_tage
      @saboo_tage 7 лет назад

      PhunkBustA I'm not clicking links

    • @PhunkBustA
      @PhunkBustA 7 лет назад

      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 7 лет назад +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

  • @RWBHere
    @RWBHere Год назад

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

  • @ividboy7616
    @ividboy7616 5 лет назад +1

    sounds like a superhero origin story

  • @scribejackhammar
    @scribejackhammar 8 лет назад +3

    Someone stuck their head in it by accident and lived.

  • @thecatsman
    @thecatsman 10 лет назад +6

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

    • @Theo0x89
      @Theo0x89 10 лет назад +1

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

    • @JumpFirstLookLater1
      @JumpFirstLookLater1 10 лет назад

      pronounced ipsilon, spelt upsilon

    • @DD-ur4rc
      @DD-ur4rc 10 лет назад

      It's upsilon.

    • @creamofbotulismsoup9900
      @creamofbotulismsoup9900 10 лет назад

      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 10 лет назад +2

      oops-ilon...

  • @jaracimrdman9059
    @jaracimrdman9059 7 лет назад

    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.

  • @briann10
    @briann10 3 года назад

    I was here early 2020, love chemistry so much. Came back few weeks before 2021, love physics so much.

  • @makuzitheinuk1856
    @makuzitheinuk1856 8 лет назад +29

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

    • @tonybparalegal
      @tonybparalegal 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад +4

      also the left side of his face never aged after that

    • @MrDendor
      @MrDendor 7 лет назад +5

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski

    • @shahabsamkan4027
      @shahabsamkan4027 4 года назад

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

    • @captnodge
      @captnodge 4 года назад

      Turned into the Hulk

  • @someonethtneverexisted
    @someonethtneverexisted 9 лет назад +3

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

  • @lello333
    @lello333 5 лет назад +1

    i feel more clever after watch this video, these people are awesome... ty to upload

  • @RStaRaptoR
    @RStaRaptoR 8 лет назад

    the large hard on collider hahaha...
    actually i was curious on the issue as well... mainly because the kaloza-kline theory was used to show the 5th dimension combines the 4rth which is ours plus time, to make the 5th dimension. which they state contains not only time, but also electromagnetism AS THE GRAVITY of the 5th dimension! and that is what i believe. there are not only other universes aka multi-verse, but also higher and possibly also, lower physical, spacial dimensions. a dude in the east in like the 1800's made a book called flatland and a dude more closer to now made a book called line land which tell a child friendly story of what ot would be like to live in another dimension, which i fully accept and love. it is a true eye opener! like any book with the Hubble images. truly amazing and makes me wonder why were not out there... me, Steven Hawking, and many others are not only worried, but frightened that if we do not act now, it will never happen. they didn't say that but they did sign a paper that said they want outer-solar-system travel to happen and most importantly, colonization of other planets. mars is boring to me, but progress in not cheap or quick. on the business side, i know a bottle neck is one of the worst things to happen. walking pace is probably the best. also why i think we need a science focused entire government somewhere on earth, but heck, that probably won't happen for a few hundred or thousand years after people get their heads out of their butts and seriously listen to science. i never stop researching, and never stop writing about it. everything from archeology to biology to atoms to space. as Einstein says, it's all relative.

  • @jondoe6618
    @jondoe6618 9 лет назад +3

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

  • @youtubehandlesareridiculous
    @youtubehandlesareridiculous 9 лет назад +13

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

  • @nomasan
    @nomasan 4 года назад +1

    Every scientist when asked about something unreal
    "It won't"

  • @tear728
    @tear728 7 лет назад

    There was actually a soviet scientist that accidentally stuck his head into an active particle accelerator that was much, much smaller than the LHC. The beam went right through his head. He lived without any brain damage surprisingly, and his colleagues thought he would surely die of radiation poisoning from ionization, but that also didn't happen.

  • @BuckyDK
    @BuckyDK 8 лет назад +18

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

    • @terrmaci564
      @terrmaci564 4 года назад +1

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

  • @OCDustin
    @OCDustin 5 лет назад +13

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

  • @Karriemisskylie
    @Karriemisskylie 8 лет назад

    I wonder if it would act in a similar way to a gun shot wound; a small entry with large exit caused by the energy rippling through in a big pressure wave which punches a big hole out - But perhaps on a more dramatic scale due to the size of the beam. A smaller entry with maybe a larger exit?

  • @MrEyee2
    @MrEyee2 7 лет назад +1

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

  • @mindlessreader1595
    @mindlessreader1595 9 лет назад +4

    PUT A COOKIE IN IT

    • @buddyisbored2355
      @buddyisbored2355 9 лет назад +1

      YES!!!

    • @mindlessreader1595
      @mindlessreader1595 9 лет назад +1

      I wonder if we could convince them to acctually do that

    • @TheArabsolga
      @TheArabsolga 9 лет назад +2

      If we put a cookie in it... Will it create an anti-cookie? if so i wonder what it will taste like...

    • @fenixxxzzzz
      @fenixxxzzzz 9 лет назад +2

      i never heard something so anti-scientifically funny

    • @mindlessreader1595
      @mindlessreader1595 9 лет назад +1

      lol

  • @jazzieman9687
    @jazzieman9687 8 лет назад +37

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

    • @fizzicist7678
      @fizzicist7678 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад

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

    • @tyleramon8371
      @tyleramon8371 8 лет назад

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

    • @fizzicist7678
      @fizzicist7678 8 лет назад +1

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

    • @RStaRaptoR
      @RStaRaptoR 8 лет назад

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

  • @quantumme9938
    @quantumme9938 8 лет назад

    Mass to Light Ratio! I love it

  • @aki3774
    @aki3774 8 лет назад +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 8 лет назад

      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

  • @stevenblack268
    @stevenblack268 7 лет назад +3

    You would turn into the incredible hulk of course!

  • @tuplaluusto
    @tuplaluusto 7 лет назад +5

    Lol the symbol question:
    Guys: "I like this symbol, it means this, does that and comes from this theory.."
    Girls: "I like the infinity symbol, it is nice :)"

  • @matzoman3401
    @matzoman3401 7 лет назад +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.

  • @Petr75661
    @Petr75661 8 лет назад

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