{"id":3039,"date":"2009-07-02T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2009-07-02T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T08:00:14","slug":"mad-max-beyond-thunderhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3039","title":{"rendered":"Mad Max:  Beyond Thunderhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/focus.aps.org\/story\/v23\/st22\">Thunderhead Accelerator<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Besides being host to stunning lightning displays, thunderclouds also emit gamma rays, although researchers aren&#8217;t completely sure why. Last fall, detectors installed on a mountaintop in Japan captured the first simultaneous observations of this radiation along with the high-speed electrons thought to be their source. The results, detailed in the 26 June <em>Physical Review Letters<\/em>, support the prevailing model of thundercloud accelerators generating &#8220;runaway&#8221; electrons, which may sometimes initiate lightning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thunderhead Accelerator Besides being host to stunning lightning displays, thunderclouds also emit gamma rays, although researchers aren&#8217;t completely sure why. Last fall, detectors installed on a mountaintop in Japan captured the first simultaneous observations of this radiation along with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}