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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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barcodekillers (2 months ago) Show Hide
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What made the curved trails? There's mostly gamma rays, were the curved trails collisions of some sort?
intemister (9 months ago) Show Hide
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very cool
uploadJ (10 months ago) Show Hide
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Hmmm ... what would happen if one of those was too go through my computer's CPU chip .... just a thought ...
Vitomanz (10 months ago) Show Hide
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nothin
uploadJ (10 months ago) Show Hide
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huh ... Not even toggle a bit or anything like that ... I got some interesting hits when I Googled:

"IBM experiments in soft fails in computer"
rluna727 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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single point upset if you are very unlucky....radiation becomes a problem for computers in a space environment especially LEO
mexicanerd (1 month ago) Show Hide
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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!
Exploratorium (1 year ago) Show Hide
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The way you captured the cloud chamber, it looks like a frosty, snow-filled night!
sunesissociety (1 year ago) Show Hide
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They all look that way.
goldryder (1 year ago) Show Hide
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how big is it?

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