Saturday 4 May 2019

Blue electron haze

There are certainly things going on that are weirder than anything I could imagine. I’m reading Build Your Own Time Machine by Brian Clegg and I now know that the ghostly blue glow that comes from some nuclear reactors is emitted by electrons which are travelling faster than the speed of light in the liquid around the fuel elements.
    It’s a useless bit of information as far as what I do is concerned, but fascinating none the less.

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