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| Source - XKCD |
See, it's funny because this is a very rudimentary version of a mass spectrometer.
The person is the aerosolized sample atom which is ionized via balloon charging, accelerated by running and jumping, deflected via the magnet, and detected by position on the target on the wall.
It's almost exactly how mass spectrometry works...only ridiculously so.
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