How a Man Survived The Strangest Accident in History 

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This incident takes the phrase, "blow your mind," to the extreme.

It's truly fascinating how one person's head can be shaken up a bit and die from brain injuries but others can get no scoped by a concentrated beam of protons and live to tell the tale

The important, unanswered question is, did he figure out what was wrong with his experiment? The reason he went into the room in the first place?

So you’re telling me that technically the survival rate of getting hit by a particle accelerator is 100%

When measuring lethal radiation exposure, those numbers are based on full body exposure - in this case it was a tiny percentage of his body mass affected.

9:48 Did anyone else celebrate as if their team just scored? It's so refreshing to hear someone actually surviving from a freak accident

Considering the average density and size of a human head, the protons having this much kinetic energy actually saved his life, since the majority of them passed through him without dumping all of their energy into his tissues.

It is insane how the collider is so deadly that the particles of radiation moved fast enough to become essentially not deadly anymore.

That was the very definition of what a series of unfortunate events really means.

This reminds me of the story of a Japanese man named Ouchi Hisashi who was leaning over the top of a nuclear reactor when it went critical and was shot with a beam of radiation that literally vaporized most of his chromosomes. His body was no longer able to make new cells, so after a few days, his skin had peeled off, leaving only bone, muscle, and nerve endings. He was in constant pain and his heart stopped many times, but he was always resuscitated by the doctors, against his wishes. He lived like this for 83 days until he was able to get the legal system on his side and enforce the DNR (do not resuscitate) order he was so desperate for. This man genuinely might have had the single most torturous death in human history.

imagine getting 500 times the lethal amount of radiation shot straight through your head then be like "aight time to get back to work"

An interesting fact about the protons going through his body: Because the protons were travelling at relativistic speeds, they would have experienced considerable length contraction. Meaning thanks to those protons going so fast, from the protons point of view Anatoli was likely paper thin, meaning fewer of them would have been able to interact with him.

This man's story is a tragic tale of how bureaucracies can be inhuman. It took him so long to get even a small amount of help from the government.

Almost 10 years ago, a section of my skull was removed to access a brain tumor the size of a marble in my right frontal lobe. I had eighty stiches from the widows peak in my scalp to behind my right ear. It was unknown if I would even have movement on that side of my face. It was an emotional rollercoaster due to the frontal lobe damage, but if you see me today, you might notice a slight difference in my right eye squint...and my IQ remains the same. Miracles happen every day ♥️

My favourite part of this is how stereotypically male his reaction was. . . Also read in an Australian accent. **Zapped by death ray** "Awww fuck, that can't be good" **2 hours pass by.** "She'll be right, if I ignore it it'll disappear, like that pain I had near my liver that just went away after like 3 months. . . " **7 hours later.** "Awww fuck, that's definately not good" **Years later** "Toldja"

Literally mind-blowing! I'd have never believed he could survive, expecting even the tiniest point in the body hit by that beam to lead to terminal cancer. Like a cascade effect on cells.

"My brain is very slow, I put my head in accelerator" "So you're smarter now?" "No, I'm dumb, but faster"

Hello my friend, Wow what an amazing tale with an uplifting end! How wonderful that he not only survived but has been able to live a relatively unaffected life! Thank you for yet another thought provoking tale. Love and light to you my brother

14:03 🤣 "The human brain is a truly remarkable organ!" - The brain

Once you said he survived i was like "the brain somehow adapted to this and turned off the damaged parts, didn't it". Truly remarkable!! Ngl though i was hoping for a Dr Manhattan situation 😂

I absolutely love ur channel homie. Been a subscriber since long before the mysterious appearance of the mustache...thanks for keeping the consistency in info/entertainment for all this time. Your effort is much appreciated.🤘

I feel like everyone has done a video on this, but always still worth a watch

When I was a kid my dad took me to a country pub, there was an old ww2 veteran there with a giant pit directly in the top of his head slightly larger than the width of a two pound coin and the pit was several inches deep. He was hit by a German bullet straight through the brain and somehow survived to be drinking beer in a pub as an elderly man....blew my mind as a kid....no pun intended 😜

So this man truly DOES have a "good side" and "bad side" of his face when taking photos! 😂

Neuroelasticity is really fascinating there was a study done on a group of London taxi drivers where they did scans of their brains and saw that their brains had created new pathways in their memory to remember all if not the majority of the routes in London that they could take in their taxis.

I'm just happy to know he survived and thrived.

Hearing Thoughty2 say "no-scope headshotted" has to be one of the best moments of 2022

Thankyou for all of the effort you put into these videos. They are funny and I learn a lot!

Always such interesting stories, told so well, I'm stoked whenever I see there is a new video, keep up the amazing work!

Your animations are cute. Kudos to whoever is the computer guru who creates them for your videos.

Maybe the superpower he gained was "The ability to take a Particle Accelerator to the head"?

The Soviet Union demonstrating poor safety standards and trying to cover it up? Color me shocked. Shocked!

I have to say this is my favorite channel. Thanks so much for your videos. I always learn something.

He likes to get sponsored by shaving and hair growing product… is Thoughty2 secretly a barber?

You’re my favourite RU-vidr! I got your audiobook today, absolutely love it 😍

So putting your head in a particle accelerator has a 100% chance of survival, and is therefore completly safe. Neat. When do we start with big scale testing?

It’s like having permanent Bels Palsy…which is he had twice, for 7-10 days each time. Just THAT was rough! Trying to drink something and it runs out of the left side of your mouth (Bels Palsy ALWAYS effects the left side. In fact, they USED to think it was a “Trucker Disease”. For whatever reason, a lot of Truckers get it, and they thought it was from then driving so much with their window rolled down.::which strikes the left side of the face, in the US), having to manually “blink” your eye, even having to sleep on the left side of my face to keep the eye closed (only other option was taping it shut or covering it with an eye patch. Even doing the latter causes it to severely dry out), & so on. So, you can just imagine. I CAN’T imagine dealing with that for *45* YEARS!

Much respect to him. He lived to experience a surreal sci fi like event and is pushing the boundaries of human understanding.

Gage, the fellow with the pipe through his head had a drastic change in personality from happy and friendly to surly. but it seems he remained with stage coach company as a driver as he made “a recovery” which was enough that he could be friendly and do his work well. it’s really a shame though. i do hope he was contented with his life. he was a handsome man. 🌷🌱

Curious if it's a case of exposure/time. The radiation exposure was huge, but because the particles were traveling so fast that the actual radiation dose was minor.

It's amazing you are finally covering this, just told my dad about it and he looked at me like I'm crazy.

To be sincerely speaking in my humble opinion without being sentimental and of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my opinion but rather looking into this serious matter with perspective distinction and without condemning anyone's point of view, i honestly think and believe that i have nothing to say. Thank you.

Incredible!!!! Your Deja Vu episode was amazing too!!! I absolutely loved it!!! Wow, man. You are good thank you!!! You’ll see more of my comments to come.

This was a very interesting video Thoughty2! Especially when I've recently been learning about nuclear physics in school.

This story made me happier than I thought it could, so glad he made it!!

At 6:25 it says Volts instead of electronvolts which are two different units! It is eV instead of V, and for those curious 7,6 Giga electronvolts is 7,6 GeV

This blows everyone's mind, LITERALLY

I would be willing say the reason he survived was the speed when a person normally gets hit with radiation it's traveling exponentially slower giving the body more time to absorb it

When I read the title, my first thought was who in the hell would voluntarily stick their head inside a particle accelerator? These machines accelerate charged sub-atomic particles to near the speed of light. You had better be confident of what said particles will do when traversing through your head before considering sticking your head in the path.

This is so crazy... I can't even comprehend how someone could live through this....this is one of the best T2 videos ever...

That was pleasing to hear he was alive. I had felt so bad at first

But the question is, did he use keeps to prevent hair loss on either side?

Bravo Thoughty! Another BANGER! Thank u 4the GREAT! work on this episode.

You're handsdown the classiest person on RU-vid.

A very easy explanation/ parallel to make of how rocks, trees, cars, us, are all made of empty space. If you think of s fan (especially one with thin blades), if the fan is off you can stick your hand, arm, or any other body part you might fancy through it, no worries. Turn the fan on and you better not be sticking any body parts through it's blades, but it's still just made of mostly empty space. And I didn't even graduate 7th grade!

that means the survivability of a particle accelerator to the head is 100%, seems safe to me

Kyle Hill did a deep dive on this issue and it was a matter of 3 things, first it takes Gorsky radioed the control room to shut everything down as he would be entering the lab in 5 minutes, but Gorsky arrived at the lab faster then planned (only 2-3 minutes not 5 plus he asked for). Second the warning light had burnt out earlier that day according the the maintenance records. Third was the fact that the lock for whatever the reason was not locked which was controlled automatically while the accelerator was running so when he say no light and the door was unlocked he thought it was safe although reports say he felt someway uneasy for some reason. The main collider unlike most normal ones used a system were it would fire the protons into the air at differently spaced sensors, it was here were Gorsky got between one of the beems. As for the reason he didn't die was because the wave Fq of the protons to slow down and dump their excess energy was longer than the thickness of his head so the terminal point were the protons would stop and drop 8 inches past the back of his skull. Hope that helps clear a little up for you as you seemed to know be aware of some of the details, Kyle Hills video about this topic was very detailed if you wanted another source especially about topics on radiation and nuclear power he has been to chernobyl and other places in relation to this topic :)

Accelerators require a near-perfect vacuum to operate and keep the beam focused. The slightest amount of air destroys the beam. I don't see how this could have been at all possible.

4:02 I've heard of this before *BUT* I never understood how it happened. Isn't the proton beam in a vacuum? Now you say that there was an air gap? It would make more sense for that to be the beam target area.

Love waking up to some thoughy 2!!

People grow old as time goes by but this guy be growing younger as years passed by🤯

I always feel smarter when listening to you speak.

Great show! Thanks.

Ive been wondering for a while now, is there an original 'Thoughty' channel that covers a different flavor of subjects? Whats the story on the inclusion of the number two in the channels name?

Wonder if this could treat aggressive cancer? I mean there’s gonna be side effects either way you go, who’s ready to volunteer? Say, since many cancer forms are directed to single areas, of course not all, if you were to blast said area with a particle accelerator, would it help? Or simply blow a hole through your testicles or colon? Or various other organs. Of course I am barely half serious, but hell, with so many painful effects from regular radiation therapy, he seemed to do quite nicely.

So... Being in a particle accelerator has a 100% survival rate?

That's more than a BILLION and one shot, Incredible story, completely Amazing 😃

That story about Phineas Gage is crazy man I read that whole thing and learned all about it like 15 years ago and it's just remarkably unbelievable

I think he survived because the beam was so concentrated that it didn't spread any further than the local area but not through the bloodstram

your vids are very captivating, you know how to tell a good story...glad I subbed, wish I had time to go through more of your vids.

I work with 2 cyclotrons, and my coworkers and I were chatting about this a while ago. I was hoping you would cover it!

FYI, proton beam particle accelerators are commonly used for highly targeted radiation therapy of various tumors and other lesions such as arterial venous malformations, especially in the brain. Much of this pioneering work was started at the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory with Massachusetts General Hospital around 1960. That cyclotron was eventually replaced by a newer and more powerful cyclotron, and numerous other medical institutions have since started their own proton beam radiation therapy programs. I found a slide talk online titled "Current Status of Proton Radiation Therapy" that said 42 centers worldwide were in operation, with 14 in the USA. Another 10 were in construction and 21 were in development at the time of the talk. These are cyclotrons that most commonly deliver about 250 MeV of energy, and the main advantage over other forms of radiation is the Bragg Peak effect of the protons, which deposit the great majority of their energy at a fixed terminal depth, thus markedly reducing the exit radiation dose to the tissue behind the target.

I don't know if was a miracle, but it is certainly a miraculous thing to survive such an event! Cheers 🍻

I just sit and wait for him to say “schedule”! Love it!

Great vid, thanks for the entertaining content!

"Your face is paralyzed, but at least you still look young!" haha

this man had more luck than anyone on the entire planet… ever 😂😅

hey Aaron i'm such a big fan watch every video you upload much love from nashville!

"Theorizing that one can time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Accelerator, and vanished. He awoke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own; and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide in this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and here. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself, leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap, will be the leap home..."

This comments section is so informative! You guys are seriously amazing!

I think how he mentally and physically reacted like not freaking out and treating it like nothin is why he lived

@5:38 Particle accelerator. "It shouldn´t have MATTERed." 😁

I worked in Ion implant in the semiconductor industry. Always wondered what would happen if someone touched the beam. Definitely not as high-powered as this particle accelerator.

'it shouldn't have mattered' best accidental pun ever?

What I learned from this video is to not get too close to Thoughty2 or your hair will start falling out.

Love the way you talked about this

0:21 I accidentally sent a text to my girlfriend about how I was thinking about breaking up with her and what my reasons were, and that I didn't quite know how to say it.... it was supposed to go to my friend, but it did not. I felt like trying to physically reach into my phone and grab the text before it left...

Wow. That is beyond miraculous.

🤯 this is incredible that he survived, I was hoping for dr Manhattan though 😅. There is a certain level of radiation exposure that guarantees you will never have cancer as the likelihood dips before continuing to rise. I imagine its something like overloading the circuit to reset it. This could mean radiotherapy success is fluke chance based on the patients existing radiation exposure levels and the treatment being enough to push them into a dip on the graph.

i'm glad to see you are growing your stash back

When I hear about places like "Moscow" or "Soviet Union", my first thought is always safety.

This truly is mind-boggling

"I've had people close to me with hair loss and it's absolutely awful having to look at them"

This reminds me of a log in Doom 3 where a scientist became entranced and backed into a particle beam. Incident report: "He seemed to be trying to say something but I'm sure it was just reflex actions"

Quality work and content as usual

This fellow got off a lot easier than did Mr. Gage. There’s something so horribly Physical about iron rods traveling at even a tiny fraction of C.

Most remarkable story. On how this man can defy death.

So if only half his face has in essence aged, he's the real-life Two-Face?

Thank you was having a off morning and saw a new video and now it’s a better day