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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. Wait, I'm confused... by d3ac0n · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does this mean that Star Trek style warp drive only works in an "Electric Universe" physics model? Or does it mean that we don't have to worry about crossing the streams once we reach 55mph?

    Great Scott!

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    Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
  2. Re:Reversing the polarity of the electron discharg by Artifice_Eternity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There is the theory of the moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop.