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Ask Ethan #108: Is there any “instant” sunlight? (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]

Friday, October 2, 2015 13:49
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“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” –Rose Kennedy

It’s a good thing that sunlight doesn’t reach us simply from its moment of creation in the core of stars, otherwise we’d be bombarded with lethal gamma rays, rather than the life-giving UV, visible and infrared light we actually experience.

Image credit: Don Dixon of http://cosmographica.com/.

Image credit: Don Dixon of http://cosmographica.com/.

But that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible that the ultimate form of direct sunlight — light from a nuclear reaction in the Sun — to reach us, does it? Today’s Ask Ethan focuses on the possibility of “instant sunlight” in exactly that fashion.

Image credit: Miloslav Druckmüller (Brno University of Technology), Martin Dietzel, Peter Aniol, Vojtech Rušin.

Image credit: Miloslav Druckmüller (Brno University of Technology), Martin Dietzel, Peter Aniol, Vojtech Rušin.

Is it possible? Come find out!



Source: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2015/10/02/ask-ethan-108-is-there-any-instant-sunlight-synopsis/

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