What would happen if you put your hand inside the LHC?

The Large Hadron Collider or simply the LHC is part of one of the most discussed scientific experiments in recent times. Approximately 27 kilometers long, the particle accelerator has a mission to find out exactly how the process that resulted in the Big Bang happened.

But more important than discovering the origins of the universe is answering the following question: What would happen if you put your hand on the equipment's power beam? This is what the Sixty Symbols team has decided to discover - and no one better to clarify this doubt than the members of CERN itself.

Although the beam sent by the device is a point less than 1 millimeter, it contains the same amount of energy as a moving airplane. As a result, anyone who decided to interfere with experiments using any part of the body would be seriously injured.

One of the scientists interviewed states that the problem is not the beam itself, but the particles that are sent along with it during the LHC operation. If a person were exposed to them, even for a minimal time, the results would be disastrous - according to the researcher, in a short time, the funny guy who decided to put his hand where he should not be dead.

Sources: Sixty Symbols, The Guardian