Astroboffins spot the most energetic photons yet from gamma ray burst – and here's hoping Earth is right in the way of the next one Scientists have detected the most-energetic photons yet seen from a gamma ray burst, with energies nearing a trillion electron volts. Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful known explosions in the universe that occur when massive stars collapse into neutron stars or black holes. The spectacle features intense gamma ray …
That spontaneous resonance effect *is* the exact same thing as Compton effect. At perfect resonance, the electron will be motionless in the field of the light (the oscillating will be 0,1,0,1,0,1 two F1s exchanging position perfectly across the field) and and the light will be travelling at the limit of exactly one resonant wavelength per universe resonant oscillation and have zero Hz EM frequency (i.e. it will be an F oscillation in an F oscillating field). Of course that perfect resonance doesn't happen, they simply even out the two oscillations to be both closer to resonance and never reach it.
Compton effect is "spontaneous resonance" effect. Its the same effect, both the electron and light are trying to settle to the middle ground oscillation.
Do you have "*inverse* spontaneous resonance"? Where oscillating systems just decide to go out of resonance just because they do? No? So why do you label things as *inverse* Compton effect? All you've done is label something you don't understands with an *inverse* effect of one you observed. There must be some cause for it going out of resonance, it just doesn't simply decide to do it.
Synchrotron radiation... hey if this is broad spectrum emission, can you do the proof test of the speed of light? i.e. that radio waves travel faster than Xrays by a very tiny amount. You're seeing gamma rays now, but look back did you have measurements indicating radio wave burst arrive before?
The ususal source (my emphasis):
Compton scattering...is the scattering of a photon by a charged particle....Inverse Compton scattering occurs when a charged particle transfers part of its energy to a photon.
"Inverse" is a convenience label which tells you what is giving the energy to what. And, at these kind of energies, they're both particle-like.
No seriously,
I learned relativity at high school.
I managed to grasp the Lorentz equations at university. I wrote a paper on solid state particle detectors that was peer reviewed. I work in I.T because a career in physics dont pay enough. Time to give these guys and girls a pay rise.
Time to dust down my cloud chamber again.
We either pay for the brains and cheap out on the equipment or cheap out on the brains and buy the big ticket toys. Take your pick.
Unlike expensive bits of kit (which are always expensive no matter which way you look at it) brains can come (comparatively) cheaper since the best minds generally want to play with the big toys regardless. And long may this continue (trust me, if we paid serious bucks all round, we'd get people with MBAs tryingtto figure out how make money off it and nothing productive to show for it...)
Would that be a case of Poincaré reoccurence?
This joke depends on recognising that the "Lorentz equations", taken as the Lorentz group, are a subgroup of the Poincaré group, the full symmetry group of spacetime without gravity, and we can therefore pun on the notion of Poincaré reoccurence for someone who intends to return on Lorentz equations. Yes, we need an icon fro this joke requires a subscript. I now, mainly, write javascript.
So just how bad would a direct hit be?
I heard somewhere that the effects would be remarkably similar to a 1kt nuclear detonation per square mile (ie bad) but not clear just what the long term consequences might be.
Would the Earth be completely sterilized or would it be more like a Permian extinction level event?
On the flip side, no more whining about Brexit, or anything else for a good 100M years.
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