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Working with highly specialized physics that is not usually seen, but will warm your heart and delight you with pictures of cats. And birds. And capybaras. Tardigrades. Microscopic life. Off grid solar, native habitats, ecology, microbiology, protein molecular machines, embedded *nix, XFCE, retrocomputing, 8bit, physics, astrophysics Maria Hill: “Sir, is that really a priority right now?” Nick Fury: “Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on”
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A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from high-energy interactions like the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei or astronomical events like solar flares. Lower energy gamma radiation overlaps the upper end of X-ray radiation; they are distinguished by their different origins. Gamma ray photons have photon energy at the lower end from 104 eV to 107 eV; ultra-high-energy gamma rays have energies over 1014 eV.[1]: 12 Paul Villard, a French chemist and physicist, discovered gamma radiation in 1900 while studying radiation emitted by radium. In 1903, Ernest Rutherford named this radiation gamma rays based on their relatively strong penetration of matter; in 1900, he had already named two less penetrating types of decay radiation (discovered by Henri Becquerel) alpha rays and beta rays in ascending order of penetrating power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_ray
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