Particle Accelerator vs. Webcam - Neatorama

Etahan Cascio from the Proton Therapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital demonstrates what happens when a Particle Accelerator is turned on in front of a Webcam. Devices used for the experiment consists of a Beam Aperture, CRaTER Instrument and a Webcam. Very interesting results at the end.

Link: YouTube

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You don't need a webcam... just stick your head in the beam and have a look -
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/science.html

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Partical cam, partical cam
Doing the things a camera can
What's it like? Neatorama.
Partical cam

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Not knowing what to expect, my sense of survival compelled me to lean involuntarily to one side before the beam was started. Hey, you never know.

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Whoooa. Who would've thought you could see particles? Cool!

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Hmmm. I guess I was just waiting for something interesting to happen.

I can get that picture on my tv when the weather's bad.

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LOL! @ ted

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did anyone ever see the video (possibly a hoax) where some base jumpers got footage of an unidentifiable thing flying thru their frame? they slowed it and it appeared to look like an arrow's tail... saw it once on tv 5 years ago, never since... any ideas?

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Old movies had accelerated particles.

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I kept waiting for some interesting results to appear at the end, and... they never arrived.

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Was anyone else expecting the cam to explode? Now that would have been interesting.

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note to self: particle streams ruin your camera, aim elsewhere

gtron, it's called a rod. Do a search of rod and cryptozoology

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@Easy & Dave - Yeah! Me too. When it said "interesting results," I thought: "Well, surely it won't explode, because that doesn't make sense... oh god I hope it explodes!"

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i see anti-paparazi guns. all hail the science.

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SenorMysterioso:

www.roswellrods.com - If you want a good laugh. Most of us call them "insects" not rods. ;)

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OMG.... Christophe stole my comment again. This is getting a bit freaky. Was gonna say "I wonder why all those old movies had particle beams aimed at the camera."

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Moodindigo - than why isnt your site called roswellinsects.com?

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Roswell Rods? Sounds like Gay porn.

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