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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: lordvader88 on June 15, 2018, 04:44:59 am
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There's not near enough Lightning research conferences, lectures or documentaries on youtube
I'd love to work on this stuff. Lightning makes x-rays and gamma-rays. I can't wait to learn more details on it. A lot more is known about cosmic x-rays/gamma rays than how lightning does it.
Lightning is rare where I live, but we sure get rain/snow.
Joseph Dwyer - "Gamma-ray Emissions from Thunderstorms" (UMBC Colloquium 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfP8MPiqLcY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfP8MPiqLcY)
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The term gamma radiation is normally used for electro-magnetic radiation (usually x-ray range, but could be even down to IR) emitted from nuclear processes. So there can be some x-ray, but should not be any significant gamma rays from lightning.
There are also quite some radio frequency pulses that might fool detectors for gamma rays to detect a wrong pulse.
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Lightning is rare where I live, but we sure get rain/snow.
Come on down to Florida this time of year. You can crash on the couch. In the afternoons, you can have all the lightning you can stomach. :-DD
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It's a free light/loud noise show......dam I wish we had more of it. There's only 1 storm that stands out in my memory and that was when I was maybe 15-16yo.
I clearly remember dry purple lightning on the horizon when I was on holiday in the US somewhere.
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It's a free light/loud noise show......dam I wish we had more of it. There's only 1 storm that stands out in my memory and that was when I was maybe 15-16yo.
I clearly remember dry purple lightning on the horizon when I was on holiday in the US somewhere.
It's a show at dusk almost every night here in central Florida. It is beautiful to watch, not so much fun to be out in the torrential downpours that usually accompany it. I remember years ago as a young lad living in New Jersey, we came to Florida a couple of times to visit family and I still vividly remember a storm that had ball lightning come in one living room window and go out the window on the opposite wall, without causing damage. I about soiled my linen over that.
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I've been in Florida, must have been for near a week ???? Wow I wish I had recordings of all those trips
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Not only that but lightning "can create photonuclear reactions in the atmosphere, resulting in the production – and annihilation – of antimatter."
(https://newatlas.com/lightning-gamma-rays-antimatter/52312/)
:scared: WTF :scared:
You sure can learn some crazy stuff on this forum.