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The Hulk and Gammasphere

Posted by timothy on from the more-power-to-ya dept.

BuzzSkyline writes "The Hulk may be animated, but the Gammasphere that turns Bruce Banner's hissy fits into raging rampages is real. It's based on a gamma ray detector used at the Berkeley and Argonne National Labs. The actual machine doesn't make monsters, but it helps in studies of nuclear monstrosities. The American Institute of Physics reports on Gammasphere and its role in the movie at Inside Science News Service."

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  1. fun with gamma rays by Mobster75 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You know... Back in college I was always taught that gamma rays would quickly and easily kill any human because of their short wavelengths and high frequencies....

    There is a reason they are one of the extreme categories on the 6 category scale of wavelengths I was taught about... (Radio waves, IR, Visible light, UV, X rays, Gamma rays)