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Originally Posted by BadNick
Prince,
since I'm pretty sure a human won't fit into any existing particle accelerator, I wonder if your question can be reworded to one of these? Or am I twisting your question off target by asking these?
1) what happens as you accelerate a human to near the speed of light? (it could be a long, slow acceleration so forces don't have destructive effects, and forget about how long it takes and how long a human actually lives)
2) what happens if a human is bombarded with a stream of particles travelling at or near the speed of light if those particles are either electrons, protons, neutrons, neutrinos, etc? ...choose the particle you like most.
Or were you just trying to make your wife feel good?
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Actually, those are the questions I meant to ask.
What brought this up was an X-Files episode, in which they had, if memory serves me, a particle accelerator large enough for a person to fit into. Maybe it wasn't a particle accelerator, but that's how I remember it. Anyway, we all know that the science in the X-Files is sound, but I thought I'd ask what the real world makes of it.