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To: imardmd1

The energy content of a proton is about a giga electron volt. Those gamma rays have an energy content 15 thousand times that. Hard to imagine anything that pack that much energy into one particle of light.


5 posted on 06/08/2013 6:54:07 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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Wonder if we could eventually harness all that power for deep space flight, or powering space stations?


6 posted on 06/08/2013 10:16:24 PM PDT by catbertz
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