This Man Stuck His Head Into a Particle Accelerator. This is what happened to his brain.
Employed at the Institue for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Russia, Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski was doing his shift at the U-70 synchrotron particle accelerator when some of its equipment malfunctioned on July 13, 1978.
The failure of multiple safety measures led to the absurd incident that ensued — Bugorski stuck his head into the operational particle accelerator, exposing his brain to a 76 gigaelectronvolt proton beam.
The CDC asserts that exposure to 120 rads (unit of absorbed radiation) may lead to death in some individuals, though the dose generally agreed upon as the LD-50 (causing 50% of individuals to die) is 400 rads. There are only a handful of rare cases in which exposure to 1,000 rads or more has not been fatal.
When Burgoski stuck his head into the particle accelerator, he exposed himself to more than 200,000 rads.
He survived.
In fact, there is no record of his death — leading many to believe that he is alive to this day. As of June 3, 2021, Bugorski is 78 years old. But he did not escape the incident intact.
Being the only human alive known to have stuck his head into a running particle accelerator, Bugorski was studied extensively in the years that followed his incident.
Bugorski, having some recollection of the accident, said he saw “a flash brighter than a thousand suns” but felt no pain. The beam burned through his skull and brain tissue, leaving vast damage to his occipital and temporal lobes.
Though having little to no reported impact on Bugorski’s intellect — he did earn himself a Ph.D. following the incident — he has said he feels mentally fatigued more easily now. The incident paralyzed the left half of Bugorski’s face for two years and made him deaf in the left ear. Bugorski is now prone to seizures. Intriguingly, the left half of his face has shown little signs of aging after the incident.
Notice the lack of wrinkles on the left half of Bugorski’s face
What are the implications of this incident to aging research? It is a popular theory among biologists that part of the reason why people age is the damage our bodies absorb over decades from background radiation. With this in mind, what mechanism exactly was responsible for stopping the effects of aging on a man’s face after he received a dose of radiation hundreds of times that which is considered lethal?
There is little information about the state of Bugorski nowadays. Is he alive? Is he doing alright?
Bugorski may have been studied extensively — but at the end of the day, the tale of the man who stuck his head in a particle accelerator leaves us with more questions than answers.
Editing by Myles Adoh-Phillips
Written by Lucas L
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