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Great science teacher risks his life explaining potential and kinetic energy (www.youtube.com)
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Not -quite- as risky as Russian physicist Anatoli Bugorski who put his head into a high-energy proton beam in 1978.

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[โ€“] Mondez@lemdro.id 45 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Title is a misnomer, at no point was his life at risk because the ball never had enough energy to reach him on the swing back... Which of course was the point of the demonstration.

[โ€“] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

He really over-dramatised it, too.

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