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Antimatter In Lightning

Posted by Soulskill on from the doc-brown-can-now-power-his-warp-drive dept.

AMESN writes "The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched last year, detects gamma rays from light years away, but recently it detected gamma rays from lightning on Earth. And the energy of the gamma rays is specific to the decay of positrons, which are the antimatter flavor of electrons. Finding antimatter in lightning surprised researchers and suggests the electric field of the lightning somehow got reversed."

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  1. Re:reversal schmersal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, you better post all that fact and expert information as AC! This is Slashdot, we'll not have any of that shit in here.. If we ever catch you in person, you'll be so deep in karma-pithole that no positive comments will ever escape again.

    Let it be the last time,
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