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Old 07-March-2008, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Ara Pacis View Post
That's our normal basis of familiarity with gamma rays. In other words, gamma rays don't cause particle cascades.
The small, brief amounts of gamma rays produced by a nuclear explosion don't. Because the matter affected is already being broken down by heat and then dispersed. A GRB is a different scenario.
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