In 1978, a Russian research scientist by the name of Anatoli Bugorski was having a bad day. It turns out that the U-70 synchrotron particle accelerator that cost lots of money to build was malfunctioning. So, he stuck his head in to do a little inspection. And that’s when the device activated without so much as a warning and propelled particles into him.
But what happened next was truly unbelievable. The resulting beam of light surprised him and left him with some strange side effects that most people will never experience in their lifetime. And this incident from the 1970s wasn’t the only one of its kind.