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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:"other means" would be more than "unexplained". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Remember: In science, NEVER be arrogant, or too convinced of your theories. Because that is usually when someone comes up with proof that you are wrong,

    Please go have a chat with the global warming alarmists and get them to release the raw data and the algorithms they used to "massage" the data and arrive at their results. It'd be nice if global warming were true, and if it really isn't about the money (creating carbon exchanges, similar to stock exchanges).