While I'm certainly no professional, I don't really find any reason to disbelieve this article, except for the writer clearly mistaking the 'speed of sound' for the 'speed of light'.
It's true that Particle Accelerators rely on supercool conditions and extreme electromagnetism, those conditions are required to achieve precise scientific experimentation. Shooting someone in the face with a supercharged stream of protons, however, doesn't require much precision... relatively speaking.
As long as the magnets were active, there doesn't seem to be much issue with the story, from my understanding.
Also, someone asked if 'time dilation' was the reason his face supposedly stopped aging. I got bored with reading, so I apologize if someone already asked this but, no. Half of his face would need to sustain near light speed for such things to happen. And THAT, I am confident, he would not survive.
It's true that Particle Accelerators rely on supercool conditions and extreme electromagnetism, those conditions are required to achieve precise scientific experimentation. Shooting someone in the face with a supercharged stream of protons, however, doesn't require much precision... relatively speaking.
As long as the magnets were active, there doesn't seem to be much issue with the story, from my understanding.
Also, someone asked if 'time dilation' was the reason his face supposedly stopped aging. I got bored with reading, so I apologize if someone already asked this but, no. Half of his face would need to sustain near light speed for such things to happen. And THAT, I am confident, he would not survive.