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Originally posted by whiteraven
Just incredible.
Anti Gravity and now anti matter.
Am I living in a comic book world?
Originally posted by adrenochrome
we always hear that Hollywood has a lot of truths embedded in their movies, well, i wonder if Spielberg was on to something when he had aliens implanted into our planet via lightning bolts in the War of the Worlds remake...
Originally posted by DOADOA
i wonder how we came up with all this. i mean, we can't see an atom yet we can see things that apparently don't exist. interesting.
Originally posted by D.E.M.
Perhaps this explains a lightning explosion the night before last here in Vancouver.
MASSIVE blast of thunder, at the same time as a bolt of light bright enough to cut through my eyelids as I am asleep goes off. House shook like a bomb went off above it.
But no other strikes. No other thunder. Just this singular, massive, thunderous blast. Roomate from Texas was shaken, had never seen anything like it.
Myself, I thought they had nuked the city or something. It was bizarre.
Originally posted by Sacrosanct
Originally posted by DOADOA
i wonder how we came up with all this. i mean, we can't see an atom yet we can see things that apparently don't exist. interesting.
Well, to be honest, once you read the article - it's not outright PROOF of anti-matter... however, it says these lightning bolts 'create enough gamma ray energy that is only known to come from anti-matter colliding with matter'
not quite the same, you see, but it's 'just as good'. Anti-matter to me is still one of those quirky things about physics. Actually, I read somewhere (source: "About Time" by Paul Davies) that anti-matter is essentially the same as real matter, in that you couldn't tell the difference between one and the other, however, the way that 'matter' is supposedly created is so that an electron is, so to speak, 'zig zagging' through time. This is a hard concept to explain without a graph (and i only have them on paper, i do not know much of internet sites though it can be found obviously) but if you assume the y axis to be 'time' and the x axis to be space, electrons are moving up and down, to the right, so as it is moving through space, it is going backwards in time, then forwards, then backwards, then forwards again...
One spike is considered 'matter' and the other spike is considered 'anti matter'... So, to me - this is still the stuff of fiction. Undoubtedly, this is still a fascinating discovery - it has been proposed that a very great amount of energy indeed is involved in matter/anti-matter collisions, where electrons are transformed back into their original state of photons, so this is still no small matter - but to outright say 'anti matter lightning' may be a bit bold - and a bit assumptuous.
I hope you guys do your own research on this... very fascinating.
Originally posted by DOADOA
understood. what i am trying to get at is: regarding atoms, we can't visually see them but through a magical process we can make out their structure, this in itself is questionable. then there's anti-matter, it's like having a clue and claiming to have the answer.
time traveling and the speed of light. electricity travel at the speed of light, so if this is true, those electrons inside those wires are actual time travelers?
Originally posted by LeoVirgo
Wow....could something be changing on a quantum level here or is this something that has always occurred here? Could it be something relatively new?
It said something about antimatter or anti electrons having to 'appear' for this to happen. Isnt anti mater everywhere? Is it shifting more for some reason and we are seeing the result? What if this started happening alot? If the poles started to shift, is this something we would see more of? Am I confusing anti mater with anti electron? Are they the same thing...mater is electrons...oh someone pls help explain.
Correct me if wrong, Im going on memory in the article...the person that observed these was from Alabama...does anyone know if the lightning occurred in Alabama? Alabama had a gravity wave in March of this year that was bizarre, Einstein said a gravity would be a shifting in time space and space time.
My mind is rambling...I cant help the questions...someone set me straight please
Great stuff S&F of course!
LV