Cloud Chamber at Exploratorium, San Francisco

Cloud chamber uses tiny droplets of water vapor to show the trails left by subatomic particles.

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[philritter21]

I bet not a single kid there cares about this. Shame. I would go there just for it.

[Vitomanz]

nothin

[FTWMikeDero]

@Grundalizer the short ones are alpha, the long ones are beta

[Grundalizer]

Interesting to see the REALLY long ones that take up the whole length of the field of vision, and I saw one that did a half moon U turn. Wonder what those are vs the little ~3-4 inch long ones

[rastamusic227]

@philritter21 if you know what happends there it would be much and musch more insterestingl. or it doesn't interest you.

[humanidt]

@philritter21 no no, we do love it.

[mgregggphone]

@Ormaaj Doubtful. Alpha particles should get easily blocked by the outer surface of your skin. Or, by the plastic in the ram chips, or, but the metal/plastic case around the computer.

I'm not saying that you are wrong so much as that you need to cite your sources.

[Annie2902]

@Ormaaj oh i ddnt kno that

[Ormaaj]

@uploadJ Believe it or not, one of the most common causes of errors in memory is from alpha particles and cosmic rays. They can flip the state of the transistors in your RAM causing soft errors.

[Ormaaj]

Electron particles can curve. Electromagnetism can also curve them

[mexicanerd]

it wold most likely miss any atoms at all and continue through the earth. right now theres millions or billions of nutrinos from the sun coursing through it!