Gamma rays are only produced by nuclear reactions. The wavelength of these rays is just 10 picometers, the size only compatible with the insides of the nucleus of an atom.
Also remember that Rossi said he has seen gamma rays coming electron/positron annihilation. From http://www.livescience.com/28594-dark-lightning-zaps-airline-passengers.html "Dark lightning" that is almost invisible within clouds may regularly blast airline passengers with large numbers of gamma rays, scientists find. However, these outbursts do not seem to reach truly dangerous levels, researchers added. More than a decade ago, researchers unexpectedly discovered thunderstorms could generate brief but powerful bursts of gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light. These so-called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes are so bright that they are able to blind sensors on satellites many hundreds of miles away. *• The amount of gamma emissions from dark lightning are very large.* Worryingly, terrestrial gamma-ray flashes can occur near the same altitudes at which commercial aircraft regularly fly. Attempts to discover whether these flashes pose a radiation hazard to airline passengers have been hampered by a poor understanding of the cause of these flashes. Past research has also found these flashes hurl beams of antimatter into space. [The 5 Real Hazards of Air Travel] "We know in detail how black holes work at the centers of distant galaxies, but we don't really understand what is going on inside thunderclouds just a few miles over our heads," said researcher Joseph Dwyer, a physicist at the Florida Institute of Technology. Extreme lightning Now computer models suggest the flashes are caused by an extreme form of lightning. Although they may blast out large numbers of gamma rays, they generate very little visible light, leading scientists to call the phenomenon "dark lightning." "I find it amazing that it took us two-and-a half centuries after Ben Franklin to find out that there is another kind of lightning inside thunderstorms," Dwyer told LiveScience. Normal lightning involves slow electrons that carry electric current to the ground or within clouds. In contrast, dark lightning involves high-energy electrons. These electrons slam into air molecules, producing gamma rays. In turn, these gamma rays generate electrons and their antimatter counterparts, known as positrons. These high-energy particles collide into still more air molecules, generating more gamma rays, ultimately explaining many of the properties of the gamma-ray flashes that scientists have detected from thunderstorms. Ordinary lightning arcs from one spot to another to reduce the voltage growing within clouds. Dark lightning does so as well, and since much higher energy particles are involved, it reduces voltage far more quickly, so the electric fields within them "can collapse in a few tens of microseconds," Dwyer said. Dwyer is underestimating the gamma producing power of dark lightning. >From this site http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/fermi-thunderstorms.html NASA's Fermi Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space Scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before. Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 TGFs occur daily worldwide, but most go undetected. "These signals are the first direct evidence that thunderstorms make antimatter particle beams," said Michael Briggs, a member of Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) team at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He presented the findings Monday, during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. The videos on this site are interesting to watch. They explain how NASA thinks how both gamma rays and positrons are formed by lightning. •* The theory does not explain how only certain lightning strokes produce positrons. Only about 500 strokes out of tens of thousands produce positrons.* *One way to tell where the gamma rays are coming from is to determine what spectrum comes from these rays. If they derive from nuclear transmutation reactions, then LENR may be involved.* On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Terry, thanks for this post. > > This discovery of dark lightning is what I was referring to as the systems > engineering approach to LENR research in the thread “Editorial by > Hagelstein in Infinite Energy”. > > Who could have ever guessed that meteorology could show the same basic > mechanisms happening in Ni/H LENR. > > This type of dark lightning has been recently discovered to exist in > sub-nanometer sized “hot spots” in between the touching surfaces of > nano-particles. > > Electric charge accumulates on the particles like static charge does in a > clouded sky of a thunderstorm. > > A steady discharge between the nano-particles forms static EMF that does > not radiate outward; this outward bright radiation is called far field > radiation. In contrast, this dark mode radiates furtively though powerfully > inward toward the center of the “hot spot”. > > This is how the powerful atomic level electrostatic EMF discharge disrupts > the subatomic processes inside the nuclei of nearby atoms. But in LENR, > being somewhat different from dark lightning because of its almost > infinitesimally small size, the hot spot is entangled throughout the entire > volume of all the micro-particles. The nuclear energy that is produced by > this dark mode is distributed roughly evenly through a quantum mechanical > sharing mechanism as that nuclear energy is broken up into a million small > individual thermal pieces throughout the entire volume of the micro-powder. > > In a thunderstorm, when the lightning turns inward in a dark mode toward > the atoms of air in the thunder stroke, no entanglement of the roiling and > heaving air is possible and the nuclear radiation that the dark lightning > produces is released in its full intensity as gamma and x-rays. > > Nature is replete with countless examples of fractal reflections of all > its processes from the huge processes possible throughout the entire sky, > down to the near atomic level LENR processes between micro-particles. > > How amazing this all is. > > > > > Cheers: Axil > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I think understanding this will aid in the explanation of NiH LENR. >> >> >
