These gender reveals are getting rather ridiculous..
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So we can see radiation afferall
Sort of? Radiation refers to any ionizing wave- particle. This means ultraviolet, x-rays and gamma-rays are not possible to see.
Alpha and beta particles can only produce visible light if they are moving faster than the medium that light travels through. Because Alpha and Beta particles are massive they cannot reach c (speed of light in a vacuum) but in water, as being discussed, any velocity >0.75c will produce the light.
Electrons and positrons are a much lower mass and require much lower energy to get moving at a sufficient speed. This means beta decay is a candidate for it, but the beta decay of naturally radioactive elements is too low of an energy for this to be observed. In nuclear fission, the neutrons won't interact this way as they aren't charged. The immediate fission products, however, are usually of very high instability and some of these do decay by beta emission in a very short period of time.
Alpha particles, which are usually 5 mev, do not create the light, as they are much more massive. These are released from things like Uranium-238 to Thorium-234.
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I heard it's also possible that the radiation hit your retina and make your neurons go off? Maybe even your visual cortex?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Again, it's not easy or ethical to test, but any charged particle interaction with a nerve for instance will possibly trigger an action potential, inducing the "light" that is witnessed. However, this is unlikely given that the optic nerves are pretty well protected.
What is more likely to occur is that a sufficient amount of gamma rays or x-rays ionizing the nerve or nerve sheathe itself and those unstable particles decay into something that releases a charged particle triggering the nerve signal.
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The demon core is, at the same time, the dumbest thing I’ve heard someone do, and yet…
“Here’s a vessel containing the most powerful force yet discovered. Nobody’s seen it in person before. A quick peek probably won’t kill you.”
“Hmmm… fuck it.”
“Also if this dome closes we are all dead. Let’s keep it open with this special device called a screw driver“
Screwdriver slips out of the gap.
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“Also if this dome closes we are all dead. Let’s keep it open with this special device called a screw driver“
Screwdriver slips out of the gap.
Even worse they had a device that could safely move the berilium spheres without the risk of them falling which would prevent the demon core from going prompt critical but no... Louis Slotin thought so highly of himself he literally couldn't think that he could make a mistake and accidentally killed himself. Let that be the lesson that no one is mistakeproof.
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...and you'll be having no more kids after that anyway.
