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Antimatter signature spotted in Earth’s lightning

Reposted from: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/08/antimatter-signature-spotted-in-earths-lightning/

November 8, 2009 @ 12:10 pm

Personally, I think this has to do with thunderstorms being essentially linear accelerators, vertical SLAC’s if you will. Huge charge differentials from top of cloud to bottom makes for a nice particle slingshot. There’s plenty of opportunity for antimatter (positrons) to be created in energetic collisions from particles coming out of the tops of thunderstorms. [...]

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