Gamma Rays From Thunderclouds

KentuckyFC sends us a report of gamma rays detected at a Japanese nuclear plant, whose origin was thunderclouds high overhead (abstract, article PDF). The theory is that showers of electrons caused by cosmic rays, when they encounter the high electric fields present in thunderstorm clouds, can be accelerated to energies above 10 MeV and result in bremsstrahlung photons detectable on the ground.

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Re:Wow. That's some high energy Gamma Rays

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Thus, in theory, a gamma photon of such a high energy level could dislodge a neutron or possibly a proton from a nucleus. I would tend to think this sort of natural transmutation would be exceedingly rare, but it's still interesting, because it could impact on the distribution of elements and isotopes on earth.

Welcome to the Electric Universe Theory, btw. Now, just imagine that lightning can extend between space and through the ground to the Earth's core. And imagine that bodies in space can possess and trade electrical charge with the space they travel through, and even, on rare occasions, with each other. This would explain what the magnetosphere is. No mysterious "dynamo" is necessary. The magnetosphere is just a plasma sheath. When two planets approach one another for whatever reason, the size of these lightning bolts can be on the scale of New York City, and this explains why we see some rilles all throughout the solar system that move both up and down with the terrain, in apparent violation of gravity. This would explain why the Colorado River travels right through the Kaibab Upwarp, and why there is no apparent "outflow" or delta associated with the Grand Canyon (the material was excavated into space). We can actually see this process occurring *right now* on Io and the excavated material forms a unique plume shape that precisely mimics the morphology generated by an electrical plasma gun. NASA is about to discover something somewhat similar happening on Enceladus, but the plume has been replaced with something much more similar to a cometary tail. This would also explain the enigmatic Tycho and Aristarchus craters on the Moon, whose apparent debris fields are not debris fields at all, but rather burn scars or excavated material.

If all of this is true, then we should expect to see some validation of these concepts within crater studies. And in fact, this is exactly what we see in many instances. For instance, many craters have terraced edges, which is a rather clear indication that we're seeing twisting Birkeland Currents dig into the ground deeper as they rotate. We also see many craters that have thin spires in their centers, which can also suggest a rotating force that did not rotate enough to excavate the material at the very center. We see these same morphologies on comets and asteroids too. Comets are really just asteroids on elliptical orbits actually. When two plasma spheres come into contact, they will tend to equalize in charge distribution if they have significantly different charges. This can explain why some "impacts" like the Tunguska event leave no trace of an impacting body, and why there were two flashes in the Deep Impact Mission at the time of contact.

Things start to get extremely interesting though once you start to apply EU Theory to tornadoes. Tornadoes are almost certainly charged sheath vortexes. They are electrical plasma phenomenon, and eyewitnesses who have been lucky enough to survive tornadoes explain that the insides of the vortex can flicker with a weak luminosity. One person has even successfully created a micro-tornado within a petri dish using nothing but salt and a voltage difference through it. Tornadoes serve a purpose similar to lightning in that they equalize charge imbalances between the atmosphere and ground like a leaky capacitor. The Van Allen radiation belts act as a sort of toroidal capacitor which circles the planet and acts as the source of many, if not all, of the lightning discharges we see. We can see that they are perturbed when lightning strikes occur, and a global map of lightning strikes demonstrates that they occur more frequently directly beneath the Van Allen radiation belts. In fact, the homopolar motor morphology is the fundamental morphology for planets, stars and galaxies.

Elemental transmutation is in all likelihood more prevalent in the universe and even here on Earth than mainstream scientists currently accept, and probably most of it occurs in highly transient a