If there are bacteria that can get their energy from gamma rays (thus thriving on nuclear reactors), can multicellular life do it too?
If so, wouldn't that broaden the parts of the universe where life could arise?
tIn the case of soft bremsstrahlung, one only can observe the average energy loss in a large number of collisions (say, by measuring the rate at which a plasma cools by emitting bremstrahlung), which is not the same as observing the effects of radiation damping forces during the scattering...
The CNO cycle emits 3 gamma rays in each turn of the cycle, and 2 positrons, which, upon annihilation, generate 4 additional gamma rays, bringing the total to 7.
The FCC's propagation models for the FM broadcast band seem grotesquely inaccurate in some places, where stations can be received that the models say are absolutely out of range. I'm not even talking about DX conditions like ducting or skip, I'm talking about baseline. When I lived in...
An electron's motion would be affected by radiation reaction much less than its own inertia unless the frequency is comparable to c/r_0, were r_0 is the classical electron radius. However one can never observe this in the classical regime, as a single photon at this frequency has an energy of...