Anatoli Bugorski has survived a strong proton beam passing through his head. Here’s what happened to him. According to physicist Stephen Hawking, the particle accelerator is the closest thing to time machines humans have built, comparing them to a time travel train.
As a technical concept, particle accelerators go back about a century ago, with the first machines developed as early as the 1930s.
Currently, there are thousands of accelerators of different sizes and shapes (circular or linear) operating all over the world.
