Hit by a Particle
Accelerator Beam
Forgetomori
Anatoli Bugorski
was checking a component of the U-70 synchrotron particle
accelerator when he accidentally put his head in the beam’s path. It
was the fatidic fateful day of July 13, 1978, and as the safety
devices failed, Bogorski later told that he saw a flash “brighter
than a thousand suns”, as protons near the speed of light traveled
right through his head. But he did not feel any pain.
The proton beam went through the left side of his head. Soon that
side of his face swelled beyond recognition, and in the next days
the skin fell, showing the path the particle beam had through his
face, brain and cranium.
Radiation doses hundreds of times weaker are fatal, and Anatoli
Bugorski was therefore taken to a hospital in Moscow where the
doctors could watch his inevitable demise. But this was Soviet
Russia, where particles accelerate YOU!!
Bugorski not only survived, but completed his PhD without virtually
any damage to his intellectual abilities, except for a marked
fatigue, loss of hearing and having the left side of his face
paralyzed. He married and has a son. He was interviewed by Wired
around ten years ago.
He did not get any superpowers either. Not as far as we know...
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Physicists Hope to
Tie Light Beams in Knots
by Lisa Zyga, PhysOrg
Usually, light
beams shine in a straight line, with the possible exception of light
being bent by gravity. But scientists are now investigating how to
make light beams into looped and knotted configurations. The
possibility for these structured light beams arises from some
curious solutions to Maxwell’s equations, which describe the
fundamentals of electricity and magnetism.
Physicists William Irvine of New York University and Dirk
Bouwmeester of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and
Leiden University in The Netherlands have published a study in
Nature Physics on their analysis of knotted light. The scientists
looked at the physical properties of knotted light and discovered
that it can be experimentally generated using circularly polarized
laser beams.
In some little-known solutions to Maxwell’s equations, all the
electric and magnetic field lines form circles that are all linked
to each other. These loops of field lines can be used to construct
the donut shape of a torus. In such a scenario, each circle wraps
around the torus once, and no two circles cross each other. Smaller
tori could then be nested within larger ones, filling
three-dimensional space with circles of light beams.
These solutions differ from any known existing form of light because
of the intricate knotted structure, the physicists told PhysOrg.com.
As they explained, this structure is based on the Hopf fibration,
which was introduced in 1931 to mathematically investigate the
structure of spheres in four and higher dimensions, a topic that
seemingly has nothing to do with light...
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Spaceship Could Fly
Faster Than Light
by Jeremy Hsu, Space.com
Travel by bubble might seem more
appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a
future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to
travel faster than the speed of light.
We're talking about the very distant future, of course.
The idea involves manipulating dark energy — the mysterious force
behind the universe's ongoing expansion — to propel a spaceship
forward without breaking the laws of physics.
"Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Gerald Cleaver, a
physicist at Baylor University. "The ship would be pushed by the
spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the
speed of light..."
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First Complete
Neanderthal Genome Sequenced
Full nuclear sequence, offering clues about our
relatives' demise, expected within months.
by James Morgan, Access
The first
complete genome of a Neanderthal — specifically, the mitochondrial
DNA found in a 38,000-year-old bone — has been sequenced.
The highly accurate sequence contains clues that our relatives lived
in small, isolated populations, and probably did not interbreed with
their human neighbours...
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The Paranormal: A
New Science of the 21st Century
by Philip J. Imbrogno, Llewellyn Journal
“Paranormal”
simply refers to something outside of normal. When we think of
paranormal phenomena, the first things that come to mind are
ghosts,
poltergeists,
and psychic communication with other worlds. However, there is
another side to these strange occurrences that includes
UFOs,
alien contact, and the appearance of unusual creatures.
I am a paranormal researcher; over the past thirty years I have
investigated every form of paranormal happening imaginable and have
compiled an extensive library covering the details of my work in
over 2700 case investigations. Despite this great amount of data, I
am always amazed by the similarities of reports that span from
hauntings to UFOs. Although I have spent quite a great deal of time
chasing down strange happenings, my full-time profession is as a
science educator; I have been teaching astronomy, earth science, and
chemistry for the past 28 years. I have undergraduate and graduate
degrees in science, and this makes me one of the few UFO/paranormal
investigators with a real scientific background. I try to use
science as much as possible when conducting an investigation, but
since we are dealing with what I believe is a new branch of science
our instruments and the so-called scientific method breaks down when
researching these so -called borderline sciences...
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