I was reading about the cyclotron and how it acelerates charges. I just had this really dumb question. What would happen if I'm in the path of the accelerated charge? Say a proton accelerated to very high speeds? Would it hit me like a bullet? (But even if it were accelerated to the speed of light, it's momentum would work out to be really tiny. I calculated its momentum and it seems that the impact of a fly would be more felt than the impact of a proton accelerated to the speed of light)
Thoughts..?