Re: Thundercloud "accelerator" fires gamma-ray beam?

Sam Wormley wrote:

Tsuchiya says that bremsstrahlung at MeV energies would be focused
into a beam that only illuminates a small area on the ground, which
could explain why so few long-duration pulses have been seen. The
team plan to verify this by placing many radiation detectors over a
wider area.

Could this radiation have an effect on the genetic material in the balls of a critter under such a beam?


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

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