On Saturday, May 10, 2014 8:40:47 PM UTC+1, John Ross wrote: > > I have read many articles about these so-called “ultra high-energy gamma > rays”. I don’t believe they are gamma rays. A gamma ray at least in my > model is a photon. They are cosmic radiation. This cosmic radiation is > monitored by summing up the energy in a cone of radiation produced from > outer space things coming from such as binary stars. My guess is that > these cones of radiation are the result of some type of massive particle, > not a photon. > "A gamma ray at least in my model is a photon" oh Mickey
> > > John R > > > > *From:* [email protected] <javascript:> [mailto: > [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *John Clark > *Sent:* Friday, May 09, 2014 7:23 AM > *To:* [email protected] <javascript:> > *Subject:* Re: TRONNIES > > > > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:39 PM, John Ross > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > A 928 MeV photon is a very high energy photon. It is off the scale of > every chart I have ever seen of the electric magnetic spectrum. Why don’t > you send me your chart showing your 500 GeV photon. > > > > The existence of photons with energy far far higher than 928 MeV (or even > far higher than 500 GeV) isn't even a controversial point, a good place to > start is the Wikipedia article on Ultra High Energy Gamma Rays, something > you should already have read if you're going to write about them: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-energy_gamma_ray > > It says: > > > " [the Galaxy] Markarian 501 has so far produced the highest measured > energy for a gamma ray of 16 TeV." > > 16 TeV is 16,000 GeV or 16,000,000 MeV, it makes your little 928 MeV > photon look pretty damn wimpy. However all this is really irrelevant > because photons, both very high energy ones and very low energy ones, don't > behave anything like neutrinos. > > > > John K Clark > > > > <p class=MsoNorm > ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
