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rickman wrote:
On 2/24/2015 6:07 PM, rickman wrote: On 2/20/2015 5:19 PM, wrote: Kurt Stocklmeir wrote: I would like to know how much am and fm radio waves are made by lightning has any person tried this - when lightning is around use their radio to find how many watts of am and fm radio waves are made by lighning thank you for any answers Kurt Stocklmeir -- --- Posted from http://lu7abf.org.ar/news --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- Very little FM, but as the EMF generated by lightning ranges from near DC to gamma rays, you likely need to be a bit more specific. Gamma rays...? Really? I guess I should have read first. They speculate that electrons traveling at near light speeds encounter nuclei and release their energy as gamma ray photons. Very interesting. Seems this was discovered relatively recently (~20 years ago). It was verified about 20 years ago but the theory that lightning can product high energy radiation, e.g. X-rays, gamma rays, dates to the 1920's. Even so, the gamma rays are not a direct part of the radiation of the lightning bolt, but rather are a result of the large EM field and are relatively uncommon compared to lightning in general. Depends on how you define "direct part". Defined narrowly enough, very little of what a lightning bolt produces is a direct part. It has been well known for a long time that if you put enough current and/or heat through matter, and air is matter, that atoms start coming apart and all sorts of things get let loose. -- Jim Pennino |
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