Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jun 11 Beam Pipe xkcd.com/3257/
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Like a garden hose!
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She should be wearing protective glasses.
Just to what-if this real quick, would that make bzzt before it goes *thump*, or after? E.g., burn through the thumb first, or suck it into the vacuum while still in one piece?
Strangely enough, this is also how they stopped the hadron collider from going amok and creating a black hole that then slurped up the earth. They were just too embarassed to admit that the skeptics were right about the black hole being made.
So what would actually happen if your thumb got hit by a neutron moving at almost the speed of light?
all things serve the beam
finally- "rule of thumb" explanation - knew it was a time machine
“The Demon Core fuckup was so long ago, it’s time.”
*dads everywhere, nodding approvingly with pride*
i do not volunteer myself
Be careful. You can spray yourself.
Do not the large hadron collider
Have they tried turning the collider down and then back up?
I think you should not open the beam pipe. It may take some time, but it would fill up with liquid air and ice and probably explode.
I laughed at this hard enough that my parents heard me and I had to try to explain it 😂
Actual serious discussion by Sixty Symbols of what would happen if you put your hand in the LHC beam (pro-tip: don't do it!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMq...
Gen X scientists be like "Watch this! I learned this trick in backyard water fights."
Garden Hose Method
This is one of those problems that solves itself. that thumb is probably going to find itself in another dimension.
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Bit of duck tape and WD40 would fix that right up...
I... would not try that.
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I like that other old trick, when it's all fired up and they're ready to start recording the data, you kink the beam pipe, and then they've got to walk around it looking for the kink.
I will never not read it as the Large Hardon Collider
Boyle's Law for garden hoses... and beam pipes.
Thank you for the alt text!
C'mon - I could have told them that years ago!
Historically, the most advanced science achievements were found by someone saying, "I want to finger that hole."
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Stopping the most powerful plasma cutter on Earth with a finger. Check out the beam dumps that they use. home.cern/autopsy-lhc-...
I think that a particle beam with the amount of energy equivalent to that of a TGV at top speed miiiight be enough to burn a hole straight through your thumb, just saying... 😆
They'd better hurry it up with the prize. Nobels can't be awarded posthumously. xD
Are you sure it’s not the Ignoble prize?
When is that thing going to start growing crystals. We need more crystals.
Incidentally we learned that by doing this you won't have a thumb.
What about the wigglin pin on the wobblin shaft........
Lmao
LOL!
Technically you could do it TWICE. Once for each thumb. Ya know, before they fall off in a few minutes due to massive radiation damage...
Being a physicist is a lot like being a 9 year old kid on a hot summer day, only it’s less people getting spayed while they do their gardening and more people being transported to Altair IV.
Wasn’t there a guy who accidentally got a beam through his head?
"... tough only for a nanosecond before the beam evaporates the thumb..." 😁
Now every collider has a Digital Bafflement Technician
Keep all hands feet and flippers out of the particle beam, it is bad for you.
when I was a kid we drank straight from the beam pipe and we turnnnndedd oujhhff ffffffff
This is why no one can remember capybara existing before.
I read "bean pipe" which is infinitely funnier
But then elementary particles spray everywhere
I've got yer beam pipe right here.
Not Tronald Crump?
If they’re so smart, why do they keep forgetting sandwiches in there?
Nobels can't be awarded posthumously 💀
Some people don't know that thumb has a 'b' in it.
Title text: "'If you keep trying to spray your collaborators with the beam when they're not looking, I'm turning off the ion source and NO one will get to play with the beam!' --Physics's mom" Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3257#Transcript
To the families of the scientists, you mean...