Recent content by David Snyder

Thank you all for your responses. What none of you have been unkind enough to say is "No dummy, it ain't got nothin' to do with Cherenkov radiation." Now that I think on it the light emited by some candies, when broken, is blue. Buckleymanor says aspirin also sparks blue. DarioC says that...

I knew the one inch wire rope was under severe strain, that's why I was watching it when it parted (broke). First, a few of the individual steel wires broke with some small time interval between each break. Then more wires broke at a faster rate until the remainder broke all at once. It was...