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If you dropped a thing through a storm to the water, would it charge the thing, from gamma radiation? TIL carbon nano yarn absorbs electricity, probably from s

If you dropped a thing through a storm to the water, would it charge the thing, from gamma radiation? TIL carbon nano yarn absorbs electricity, probably from storm clouds too. What are the volt and charge observations for lightning from large tropical thunderstorms? (And why is it dangerous to attract arc discharge toward a local attractor? And what sort of supercapacitors and anodes can handle charge from a lightning bolt? Lightning!) Tardigrades can handle Gamma radiation. "Researchers create new type of composite material for shielding against neutron and gamma radiation" (2024) https://phys.org/news/2024-05-composite-material-shielding-neutron-gamma.html https://phys.org/news/2024-05-composite-material-shielding-n... : "Sm2O3 micron plates/B4C/HDPE composites containing high specific surface area fillers for neutron and gamma-ray complex radiation shielding" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266353824001374 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02663...

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On lightning and safety and electrostatics: "Answer to Is there a device that attracts lightning when storms are near? How can I make a lightning rod to do experiments with lightning?" (202_ yrs ago) https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-device-that-attracts-lightning-when-storms-are-near-How-can-I-make-a-lightning-rod-to-do-experiments-with-lightning/answer/William-Beaty?ch=15&oid=246657293&share=084334a4&srid=p4lp&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-device-that-attracts-lightn... : Electrostatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics The Photoelectric effect that supports the Particle-Wave duality > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect : > Einstein theorized that the energy in each quantum of light was equal to the frequency of light multiplied by a constant, later called the Planck constant. A photon above a threshold frequency has the required energy to eject a single electron, creating the observed effect. This was a step in the development of quantum mechanics. In 1914, Robert A. Millikan's highly accurate measurements of the Planck constant from the photoelectric effect supported Einstein's model, even though a corpuscular theory of light was for Millikan, at the time, "quite unthinkable". [47] Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", [48] and Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for "his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect".[49]

westurner 2y ago

On lightning and safety and electrostatics: "Answer to Is there a device that attracts lightning when storms are near? How can I make a lightning rod to do experiments with lightning?" (202_ yrs ago) https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-device-that-attracts-lightning-when-storms-are-near-How-can-I-make-a-lightning-rod-to-do-experiments-with-lightning/answer/William-Beaty?ch=15&oid=246657293&share=084334a4&srid=p4lp&target_type=answer https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-device-that-attracts-lightn... : Electrostatics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics The Photoelectric effect that supports the Particle-Wave duality > History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect : > Einstein theorized that the energy in each quantum of light was equal to the frequency of light multiplied by a constant, later called the Planck constant. A photon above a threshold frequency has the required energy to eject a single electron, creating the observed effect. This was a step in the development of quantum mechanics. In 1914, Robert A. Millikan's highly accurate measurements of the Planck constant from the photoelectric effect supported Einstein's model, even though a corpuscular theory of light was for Millikan, at the time, "quite unthinkable". [47] Einstein was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect", [48] and Millikan was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for "his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect".[49]