Antimatter caught streaming from Thunderstorms

[J Tyler]

I thought everyone here would find this interesting.....Insert Star Trek comments here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12158718

 

[David Drummond]

It appears to be a highly focused aperture in the space-time continuum. It's energy signature matches that of the temporal fragments observed previously. However it is approximately 1.2 million times as intense. I think thunderstorms may be the origin of temporal fragmentation.

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

Has anyone tried a tachyon pulse? If we reconfigure the deflector dish to the harmonic of the sensor array, it just might work.

 

[Robert Edmonds]

I am not attending AAS this year, but thanks for bringing this to our attention. If anyone is interested I found another article where they look to associate gamma ray burst detections with lightning detections from the World Wide Lightning Location Network. Allot of the names from the press release appear as authors on the article.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010JGRA..11512307C

 

[Mike Deep]

Has anyone tried a tachyon pulse? If we reconfigure the deflector dish to the harmonic of the sensor array, it just might work.

How long will this take?

 

[Darren Addy]

For those who prefer NASA to the BBC (I know, it's a toss-up).

 

[Dave Rennie]

Here's a similar article from NASA: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/11jan_antimatter/

 

[David Drummond]

8 hours, but we'll have it for you in 4!

 

[TJ Whitt]

I'm not a lightning expert but would this be what is causing the "sprites" seen from space? Or is that what they call "terrestrial gamma-ray flashes"?

 

[Eric Bucsela]

Good question, but sprites are a much lower-energy phenomenon. They are mainly the result of excitation of the electrons around N2 molecules to energies just high enough that they emit red light when they decay. The excitations are usually not even sufficient to ionize the molecules, let alone cause nuclear reactions. Blue jets are associated with higher energies (hence the blue emissions), but still well below those of gamma rays.