Sound weapons

[Acriku]

Another example is highly ionized hydrogen glows dark red. Which is an indirect method to proving red nebulae are made of hydrogen.

[Timenn]

Ok, sorry I forgot those. Must be because I was thinking of low quantities. It reflect very few.

But it still makes no sense in the games that you see that plasma lighting up. Like in Emperor for example. Or Dune 2000

[nemafakei]

Lighting up?

Well, anything that is superheated tends to be bright - eg tungsten filaments in light bulbs...

[Twin-Head]

I have a question. What is wood? It might be a solid, but all solids are supposed to melt into a liquid at some temperature. Have you ever seen liquid wood?? So what the heck is wood?

[Acriku]

Wood is a bunch of fibers. :)

[Desert_Eagle25]

ok, if the core of the earth has plasma and gas and such, what if the pressure gets so bad it explodes :O :O :O :O :O :O :O :O

[Emperor Harkonnen]

Wood is a organic substance. Have you ever seen a liquid human, or animal?

[Anathema]

It wouldn't. If the pressure becomes to great a vulcano will erupt.

[Timenn]

Yes, hot stuff light up because the electrons gets too much energy and they want to lose it. They do it by sending out a foton. That's why plasma can't be seen in dark. Plasma CONTAINS electrons. But the tempature is too high for the electrons to return to the atoms. But there will always be some plasma what cools down, in other words: the nucleus' gets their electrons back. And the electrons have to lose energy for that. Energy in way of a foton

[Anathema]

How does the sending out of a foton (photon is correct english spelling ;) ) light anything up? Photon radiation is radioactive gamma radiation, so I don't see the connection.

[Timenn]

Well, the photon ( :)) is a light particle/wave. Which we can see if it's in our spectrum

A photon is a strange particle/wave. It behaves like a particle and like a wave. But in this case we can talk about the wave part. The wave has a specefic frequency. The frequency stands for a specefic light type. For low to high: Radio - Infra-red - colors - Ultra-Violet (sun) - X-rays - Gamma

But the strange thing is is that gamma radiation comes from the core...?

[Anathema]

Weren't photons the same as neutrons? As I recall, a photon is a particle that originates from an unstable atom, and forms gamma radiation. Positrons and electrons are alpha and beta radiation.

[Edric O]

Oh brother... ::)

A photon is a particle associated with an EM (electromagnetic) wave. ALL EM radiation is composed of photons. That includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma radiation. Gamma has the shortest wavelength, so "gamma photons" are in the highest energy state.

Photons are NOT leptons (sp?) or quarks. They are a world apart from neutrons, protons and electrons!!

Speaking of which, beta radiation is composed of electrons or positrons, while alpha radiation is composed of alpha particles (2 protons + 2 neutrons)

[Anathema]

Ok please forgive my suckness at physics :).

[Timenn]

Yes, while we are talking about radiation. Radiation is alpha + beta + gamma (a + b + g)

And they all come from the core. To make it more stable

An a is released when the core has too less neutrons.

A b is released when the core has too many neutrons. Neutrons split up in electrons and protons. And the electrons are released

A g is released when the core has too much energy

And as I and Edric said. Photons are light. And light is then more then just visible 'light'

About the strange behaviour of photons. The quantum physics/theory is related to that :)

[TMA_1]

yeah but radiation has more to do with decay. when atoms move to lower and lower power stages, photons are released. thats something else about it.

[Devastator_Mech]

Its always exploding, but the earth could withstand it.

[Anathema]

In relation to one of my previous posts in wich I stated that photons are neutron particles (thnx for the correction Edric), I knew that alpha radiation had a positive charge and beta a negative charge (they are always composed out of electrons- never out of positrons), and I knew that gamma radiation had no charge- so I assumed they were composed out of neutrons. My bad.

[Caid Ivik]

Yes, hot stuff light up because the electrons gets too much energy and they want to lose it. They do it by sending out a foton. That's why plasma can't be seen in dark. Plasma CONTAINS electrons. But the tempature is too high for the electrons to return to the atoms. But there will always be some plasma what cools down, in other words: the nucleus' gets their electrons back. And the electrons have to lose energy for that. Energy in way of a foton

That's partially right. But plasma can be made from or nucleons OR electrons. Also, haven't you ever seen flame? There is visible light, of course because of exotermical property of burning there is much more infrared light.

[TMA_1]

Everything is energy! either more condensed into matter or less so creating photons. Everything has wave properties and partical properties. There are many things we dont know about. just relax and drink some energy while watching some energy... lol sorry

[Desert_Eagle25]

my head hurts.

[Anathema]

Yes, in fact matter consists of a LOT of energy.

E = MC2

or

the energy is the mass times light speed (300,000 k/hour) times light speed. That's plenty.

[exatreide]

dont you mean per second?

[TMA_1]

matter is energy. The great scientist (de'brogli was his name I believe) made a great theory about it. he set up tests that indicated that even matter particals like electrons, protons and neutrons had wave and partical properties. just like photons.

[Anathema]

Yes Ex, stupid mistake of me. Sorry.