ReinyDays
Gold Member
Cosmic Rays? ... HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW ...
A cosmic rays are, for the most part, just protons ... or HII ions if you prefer ... in a half ounce of water, there's are 10^16 bare nekked protons ... drink up, see they're harmless ... oh, and the Sun spews protons at us in rather surprising quantities ... what defines a "cosmic ray" is the direction the proton comes from, any direction other than the Sun ... or we call it solar wind ...
The thing about these bare nekked protons is that once they begin to enter the electron-rich atmosphere ... well ... they quickly become neutral Hydrogen ... say in the top 1% of the air layer ...
I'm sorry ... nucleation better describes what we see than cosmic rays ... not just cloud formation, but all around us ... open a bottle of beer, drink some, see how the fizzies seem to form at particular spots inside the glass bottle ... not cosmic rays ... those are nucleation sites ...
A cosmic rays are, for the most part, just protons ... or HII ions if you prefer ... in a half ounce of water, there's are 10^16 bare nekked protons ... drink up, see they're harmless ... oh, and the Sun spews protons at us in rather surprising quantities ... what defines a "cosmic ray" is the direction the proton comes from, any direction other than the Sun ... or we call it solar wind ...
The thing about these bare nekked protons is that once they begin to enter the electron-rich atmosphere ... well ... they quickly become neutral Hydrogen ... say in the top 1% of the air layer ...
I'm sorry ... nucleation better describes what we see than cosmic rays ... not just cloud formation, but all around us ... open a bottle of beer, drink some, see how the fizzies seem to form at particular spots inside the glass bottle ... not cosmic rays ... those are nucleation sites ...