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Re: [Phys-L] lightning


On 2013, Jun 14, , at 10:44, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:

In case anybody on this list hasn't been following the news super-
closely:

Thunderstorms are seriously energetic. In addition to thunder and
visible lightning, they produce gamma rays. This was discovered
within the last 25 years.

Not only that, they produce antimatter! Sometimes huge numbers
of positrons come shooting out the top of the storm. This was
discovered within the last two or three years.


Did any of the early balloonists w/ thick dense emulsions "bring" along a magnet. Even w/o, would examining the stars lead to a suspicion of antis?

bc doesn't remember from his early reading of Leprince-Ringuet.