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July 20, 2014
Anti-Matter Thunderstorms
Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGFs occur daily worldwide, but most go undetected. "These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams," said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).
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Interesting timing. I was watching Nova last night and the topic was lightning and the phenomena called Sprites. That is, a brief burst of lightning up into the ionosphere above a lightning strike below.
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at July 21, 2014 5:54 AM
Global warming strikes again.
Posted by: Fat Man at July 21, 2014 6:30 AM
When antimatter combines with dark matter do you get doesn't matter? (Only scientific sounding answers please).
Posted by: BillH at July 21, 2014 7:00 AM
Neat stuff to know but completely beyond my ability to understand.
Posted by: Jack at July 22, 2014 8:43 AM