http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/art...-lightning.html




It has long been known that lightning might produce X-rays but this is this first time they have been captured on camera.

The picture could help scientists better understand what causes lightning and predict its behaviour.

The grainy images were taken by Joseph Dwyer, a physics professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. He said: ‘This is actually sort of what Superman would see. Superman has X-ray vision.’

He added: ‘We understand how a star explodes halfway across the universe better than we understand the lightning right above our heads.’

The picture was taken with a huge camera fitted with 30 radiation detectors combined with software that turns voltage measurements into images.

Each detector contributes data to the picture, so the result looks like a photo with only 30 pixels.

Lightning occurs when a negative charge builds within a cloud and then is released downward, connecting with a positive charge. Once that connection is made the bolt of lightning discharges and we get the flash of colour we are familiar with.

the doctors nothing to do bring the whole xray machine out to capture lightning?

doctor NBTD

next time bring the whole ultrasound machine to record thunder?

Will they xray kentut?

understanding lightning is NBTD??

there must be some reasons why they did that, understanding lightning..
u never know what their intention are..asyik asyik nak kutuk je..

no, bring the whole xray machine outside is.

what reason?

why they need to x ray machine?

"But scientists still not completely understand how that spark begins as electrical fields that have been measured in clouds seem too small account for it. And they do not yet understand whether X-rays actually play a role in how a lightning bolt forms and travels."

u can figure out this?

to capture the xray of lightning?

the x-ray machine use in hospital generate x-ray to pass through human body and create x-ray image on detector. this experiment only need detect the x-ray generate by the lightning itself.

This post has been edited by robertngo: Dec 18 2010, 12:33 PM

existence of thor?

oh. means they play play only.

so what does this indicates? anything significant?

Nice..something to discover in future

ok hack3line will said that US is making their own weather weapon..

i lol at this

Effing lightnings, how do they work?

they should do pap smear on it

just image processing..... data visualization

later got zeus picture .. lol

This proves the existence of Zeus

and thor maybe ? lol

stupid people is always stupid~

xray not only for medical imaging laa.. wake up.. grab your mouse and surf for knowledge..

let them be like that

could be this.