I have an out-of-print national geographic book called “Inventors and Discoverers” with a bunch of great pieces in it, but I’m having trouble finding good versions of them on the web. A few particular favorites:
The mysterious blue glow w/ discharges looks like Cherenkov radiation, even though I’m pretty sure it’s just blue lights serving as a backdrop to some high voltage discharge.
This is basically the most sci-fi thing ever—it’s like the visual director of the universe decided that high-energy radiation in water had to glow blue to show the audience that something weird was going on.
It took me a while to understand that the “blue glow” comment was directed at the electric discharges picture in the comment you replied to, and not at your own nuclear reactor picture, which is real Cherenkov radiation.
I have an out-of-print national geographic book called “Inventors and Discoverers” with a bunch of great pieces in it, but I’m having trouble finding good versions of them on the web. A few particular favorites:
The mysterious blue glow w/ discharges looks like Cherenkov radiation, even though I’m pretty sure it’s just blue lights serving as a backdrop to some high voltage discharge.
This is basically the most sci-fi thing ever—it’s like the visual director of the universe decided that high-energy radiation in water had to glow blue to show the audience that something weird was going on.
It took me a while to understand that the “blue glow” comment was directed at the electric discharges picture in the comment you replied to, and not at your own nuclear reactor picture, which is real Cherenkov radiation.
Maybe these should be moved into answers, instead of as this comment? (And as separate answers, so people can vote/discuss them separately.)
Alas, these ones don’t work for me.
Same, on phone and they aren’t rendering :(
Should be working now.
Yes! These are all great!