Anatoli Bugorski was a Russian particle physicist who worked at the U-70 synchrotron, the largest particle accelerator in the Soviet Union, in 1978.
One day, he was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when he accidentally leaned over the beam path and got zapped by a 76 GeV proton beam. That’s about 200,000 times more powerful than a dental X-ray.
You might think that such an encounter would instantly vaporize his head, or at least turn him into a super-villain with mind control powers. But surprisingly, Bugorski felt no pain and saw only a flash of light “brighter than a thousand suns”.
He didn’t even realize what had happened until he noticed that his face was swollen and peeling off.
He
rushed to a hospital in Moscow where doctors expected him to die within
days from radiation poisoning. But Bugorski defied all odds and
survived....<<<Read More>>>...
