Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
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Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
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Re: Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
#2This is fascinating. I've only ever really though of antimatter forming in the early universe, at the edges of black holes, and in particle accelerators. I love the thought of them forming in thunderclouds as well, and I'm quite curious to hear about the followup investigations.
Re: Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
#3This is fascinating. I've only ever really though of antimatter forming in the early universe, at the edges of black holes, and in particle accelerators. I love the thought of them forming in thunderclouds as well, and I'm quite curious to hear about the followup investigations.
Never would have thought the A-10 could become an instrument of science
Re: Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
#4This is fascinating. I've only ever really though of antimatter forming in the early universe, at the edges of black holes, and in particle accelerators. I love the thought of them forming in thunderclouds as well, and I'm quite curious to hear about the followup investigations.
Never would have thought the A-10 could become an instrument of science
Thundercloud, not Thunderbolt. There's a big difference.
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#5I've followed (lightly) this phenomena from the first time I read about it with the FERMI project at NASA [1]. The common attribute seems to be that given a strong enough electric field you can pull apart some particles.
[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/fermi-thunderst...
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#6Re: Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
#7This is fascinating. I've only ever really though of antimatter forming in the early universe, at the edges of black holes, and in particle accelerators. I love the thought of them forming in thunderclouds as well, and I'm quite curious to hear about the followup investigations.
Positrons are way more common than that, i.e. only in the early universe, black holes, particle accelerators. They are emitted in a kind of radioactive decay, and are the basis of PET scanners.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thundercloud, not Thunderbolt. There's a big difference.
No they're literally flying an A-10 into the storm to try and measure things.
> the US National Science Foundation even plans to fly a particle detector on an A-10 ‘Warthog’
wow I missed this the first time reading it. Are A-10s cheaper to operate than a G-V? (costing at least 8,000 per hr)
Re: Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
#9If this blast of gamma rays didn't give us scientist with superpowers, I'm going to start to think comic books aren't true.
Re: Rogue antimatter found in thunderclouds
#10Wasn't this already known (or presumed) before?