large diffusion cloud chamber with radon gas double-decaying!

awesome demonstration of a massive diffusion cloud chamber - with normal background radiation vs. americium 241 vs. the epic RADON 220 gas! just wow!

ps: yeah, i know i accidentally said "Radium 220" instead of "Radon 220" once - and that i said "half time" instead of "half life" a couple of times. sorry about that, i was just drained after that awesome day at the museum and thus, unable to concentrate properly.

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[Chris7771369]

How do I make one of these cloud chambers to see this experiment in person. I love to give it a try. I find it to be very interesting. Do you think it's possible for an other world to exist within our own world? Like living energy, or maybe like organisms that are pure energy or radiation.

[bionerd23]

@Chris7771369

just google or youtube search for DIY cloud chamber or whatever, you'll find more than enough, including "starbucks cloud chamber". just google it. :P

and well, we all are living energy. all energy in the universe is either in the form of radiation, or in the form of mass, and can at least partly be converted (radioactive decay, nuclear fission). if we were to turn all of an atom into energy (and not just fission it into two or three pieces), all hell would break loose. ^_^

[sn1pe352]

students are taught that the rate of decay of a specific radioactive material is a constant.if a radioactive element was shield from the cosmic waves/background radiation it would cease to remain radioactive,There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation. The decay rate was ever so slightly faster in winter than in summer, thus Einstein is Wrong. Period

[bionerd23]

@sn1pe352

thanks for the comment - i heard about that, too - radioactivity increasing / decreasing with e.g. solar activity. maybe radioactivity is something that is more or less likely to be induced in EVERY element, depending on properties. maybe there's NO stable element, as radioactivity depends on an outside factor, some kind of force carrier particle, that can induce it... it every nuclide. it's possible, but i havent seen valid proof for it yet. it's something to consider, though.

[dsidewd]

i have no clue whats happening. What happens if you breathe in whatever that is?

[bionerd23]

@dsidewd

well, you're breathing most of the stuff you can initially see all the time, as that's natural radiation that surrounds all of us. :)

as for the radon - the radioactive noble gas that was injected - a small dose will not do anything, either, but if you're chronically exposed (like e.g. the uranium miners used to be exposed to it), it is very likely to give you lung cancer. only smoking bears a higher risk of getting lung cancer.

[viking1324]

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

Are you talking without moving your mouth?

[bdjrs]

wow! this is incredible! thank you so much for posting this. how does it work exactly? why can we see the atoms decaying? it's almost like you can see the universe as it is instead of how we interpret things!

don't listen to the morons who only take criticism of your voice personally. they just have no appreciation for the world around them.

[whotaughtyou]

COCAINE LITHIUM POISON ALGERIAN MINISTER WHY ISN'T MARIBEL HERE NOW

[Barotropic]

Very interesting.

[SteffanLlwyd]

@asteroceras Did you see the YouTube vids (animations) on quantum weirdness? They are great....

One thing that struck me at the Science museum is how much more modern and functional the Newcomen Atmospheric Engine looks compared with the later and more ornate Boulton and Watt Engine. I love that place still. Life changing place and a national treasure!

[asteroceras]

@SteffanLlwyd I went to the Science Museum a few months ago specifically to see the cloud chamber. Very disappointed.

[sn1pe352]

@SteffanLlwyd very little people do :(

Sadly it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the problem is standard models take a lot of frictional resistance and time to change, therefor it will be quite a while before mainstream academia has the courage and wisdom to reconstruct standard model theorem

The distilled essence can be found in large by great minds such as

Nikola Tesla's Dynamic theory of Gravity and Walter Russell's Electric Cosmology

Understanding this is key to "Higgs Fields"

[SteffanLlwyd]

When I was very young I was amazed by the cloud chamber at the Science Museum, London; but sadly, they don't have a cloud chamber there any more. I share your enthusiasm for this equipment!

Brownian Motion observed inside a smoke cell is also fun to see.

[SteffanLlwyd]

@sn1pe352 That's very interesting.  I had no idea!

[CornMakesWhiskey]

wow, that is amazing. I would love to see it in person.

[peregrintuks]

what kind of metal do you use between glass and solid co2?

[TempleBellMusic]

THORIUM 232!!!! 1:34 XD