Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> Wrote:
>>Well ok, I have heard of some theoretical work that if the Gamma
>>rays were intense enough, and I mean intense, the sort of thing you
>>only find near a black hole or Gamma ray burster, then there might
>> be a little scattering, but if you're that near a Gamma
>Are you referring to particle/antiparticle generation from vacuum over
>a critical flux, or is this some direct interaction?
Mass produces gravity, photons of light have energy, Einstein gave us an equation
to convert energy into mass (M = E/c^2), so photons should attract each other a little,
a very very little. Normally this is far too small to measure but in the center of a Gamma
Ray Burster there are so many photons concentrated into such a small area that the
mass density of this pure radiation is thousands of times that of lead and the effect might
start to show up. But if you were closer than 10,000 light years to that you probably
wouldn't be worrying about it, you wouldn't be worrying about much of anything.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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