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" Designed to scan the heavens thousands to billions of light-years beyond the solar system for gamma rays, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has also picked up a shocking vibe from Earth. During its first 14 months of operation, the flying observatory has detected 17 gamma-ray flashes associated with terrestrial storms — and some of those flashes have contained a surprising signature of antimatter."
www.sciencenews.org/view/gen...lightning
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Sat, November 7, 2009 - 4:14 PMEverything you want to know about antimatter (which was also called contra-terrain matter back when I was a boy).
livefromcern.web.cern.ch/livef...atter/
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Sat, November 7, 2009 - 4:26 PMNote: apparently there were articles suggesting this phenomenon published in the well-known journal Nature as early as 1971, so this shouldn't be quite the huge surprise implied by the article here. -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Sat, November 7, 2009 - 7:34 PMfascinating. But do you have a better link for antimatter that explains it in something other than thought bites? -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 5:28 PM<But do you have a better link for antimatter that explains it in something other than thought bites? >
Or you could look it up yourself :) -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 5:29 PM(oh - but because of my slackness.. make sure you post the link for ME ! :) -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 6:42 PMSure does !
Thank You.
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 5:53 PMGood question...
Wired has a rollicking pop-sci story with a movie tie-in - www.wired.com/dangerroom/...bs-for-real/
Wikipedia has an article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter
Space.com has something to say about antimatter and the sun - www.space.com/scienceastr..._030929.html
Though funnily enough, CERN's not the only serious scientific institutions web-publishing in thought-bite form for the general public... here's another one: discover.positron.edu.au/ -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 6:42 PMOh... more material for a slacker !
Thanks !
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 5:31 PM<During lightning storms previously observed by other spacecraft,>
I wonder how much tome they spend looking at the earth scientifically.. rather than just admiring it.. from space.... -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 5:37 PMI'll answer this one first. :)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:
www.nasa.gov/centers/god...e/index.html
This is where a lot of the Earth (and Earth-Sun) science goes through. -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 6:17 PMHere's a list of current missions operated by NASA; you can look through them and find the ones that are Earth science related.
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Mon, November 9, 2009 - 6:43 PM<you can look through them and find the ones that are Earth science related. >
Quite a few there ... -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Tue, November 10, 2009 - 2:11 PMwwwaaay over my head ;- P -
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Tue, November 10, 2009 - 2:14 PMAnd under your feet. :)
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Re: Antimatter found in lightning
Tue, November 10, 2009 - 2:14 PM......does antimatter matter ? -
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Tue, November 10, 2009 - 2:17 PM
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