Re: seeing light flashes

[chatho@lanl.gov (Charles Thomas)]

>>>Hi gang- this showed up on the medical physics list server. I remember
>>>hearing accounts that astronauts on Apollo missions and folks who
>>>inadvertantly stuck their heads into accelerator beams have seen light
>>>flashes, but I cannot find a references to support this. Anybody got any
>>>references?
>>>Kim.
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>I don't know where you will find this documented - but it is true!
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>As you say astronauts have experienced as have early accelerator 
>researchers.
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>I recall a few years back a Nobel Laureate relating such early experiences 
>(name purposed NOT revealed).
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I remember hearing about a physics professor that used to line up an
accelerator beam using his eye.  Beam stricking his eye.  I know that he
developed cataracts.


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Charles (Tommy) Thomas
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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