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Signature of antimatter detected in lightning
ScienceNews ^
| 11/6/09
| Ron Cowen
Posted on 11/07/2009 3:35:23 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
11/07/2009 3:40:38 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: LibWhacker
That’s awesome. Wonder if that will explain part of the sound generated by a lightning strike, or even a spark.
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posted on
11/07/2009 3:41:52 PM PST
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TheZMan
(Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
To: TheZMan
So let me get this straight. Scientists are still learning things that change “facts” in science? But they are so certain that they know all the “facts” on global warming - so much that they are willing to bankrupt all of the nations in the industrialized world - specifically US - to stop it.
Global warming = control. If CO2 is bad then they have the “right” to control all those who use/make it - every human being. (sorry to hijack thread...it just reminded me again how little we truly know about this planet, the universe, and interactivity between all entities. The Global Warmests are the most arrogant people on the planet.
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posted on
11/07/2009 3:47:01 PM PST
by
dannyboy72a
(The President of the United States should not be selling me insurance or lightbulbs)
To: dannyboy72a
And some of the most gullible and stupid people on Earth! Al Gore is a prime example of the “Elmer Gantry” type...just more greedy and grasping.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:36:39 PM PST
by
junkman_106
(USN, Ret.and Mad as Hell. I've got the skills, come get my weapons!)
To: dannyboy72a
And some of the most gullible and stupid people on Earth! Al Gore is a prime example of the “Elmer Gantry” type...just more greedy and grasping.
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posted on
11/07/2009 4:36:47 PM PST
by
junkman_106
(USN, Ret.and Mad as Hell. I've got the skills, come get my weapons!)
To: TheZMan
I believe the sound production can be explained by the heating effects, although the thermodynamics are complex; rather like modeling an H-bomb explosion via computer simulation.
There may be some level of precision where quantum effects have to be accounted for.
BTW—
Since a garden variety gamma ray has a energy of 100+ KeV, it is plausible that a lightning strike, which often begins with potential differences of megavolts, could produce them.
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posted on
11/07/2009 5:13:52 PM PST
by
Erasmus
(Sid's oxymorons: Journal of Non-Verbal Communications.)
To: LibWhacker
It produces power to drive this.
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posted on
11/07/2009 5:19:25 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(We need more Joe Wilson's. OBAMA is ACORN ACORN is OBAMA)
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posted on
11/08/2009 5:13:31 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/08/2009 5:14:07 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
11/08/2009 5:28:09 PM PST
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: SunkenCiv; LibWhacker; decimon
Antimatter. And now we know the real reason behind--
ǝuıɥɔɐɯ ɹǝɥʇɐǝʍ s,ʎǝuǝɥɔ ʞɔıp
(what color is a whissper?)
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posted on
11/08/2009 5:34:01 PM PST
by
bigheadfred
(Be who you are and say what you feel: Those who mind don't matter.Those who matter don't mind.)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
11/08/2009 6:00:57 PM PST
by
decimon
To: LibWhacker
There are two kinds of stuff... Matter, and Doesn’t Matter..
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posted on
11/08/2009 8:15:48 PM PST
by
Paradox
(ObamaCare = Logan's Run ; There is no Sanctuary!)
To: SunkenCiv
Hmm. Interesting, though not really so suprising. There’s a hell of alot of power in these things.
Thanks always for the pings.
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posted on
11/09/2009 7:29:12 AM PST
by
onedoug
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posted on
11/09/2009 9:00:55 AM PST
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AdmSmith
To: Paradox
"There are two kinds of stuff... Matter, and Doesn't Matter.. " Yep! As science, this probably doesn't matter, IMHO (currently)...
However, what does "matter" (based on a quick reading of this article) is that some a_hole might have had the dang telescope pointed in the wrong direction.
" Modelers are now working to figure out how the field reversal could have occurred. "
How about finding out how the "real" reversal could have occurred?
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posted on
11/09/2009 2:11:54 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: bigheadfred; onedoug; AdmSmith
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posted on
11/09/2009 5:38:00 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
11/12/2009 12:41:16 AM PST
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: AdmSmith
The article is not correct, a positron is not really antimatter, it is just an antiparticle. It IS antimattter. Not an anti-atom, but electrons and positrons (anti-electrons) are matter. So are quarks and anti-quarks, although at that level the difference between matter and energy is somewhat fuzzy.
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posted on
11/12/2009 1:25:33 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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