Timeline for What would happen if an incredibly high energy photon passed through a human body?
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| Jul 24, 2015 at 12:28 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | @dmckee is correct. High-energy photons can eject electrons w/ a decent speed, so it's just a matter of exceeding the binding energy. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 21:33 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | When the energy of the photon very much exceeds the binding energies of the system the photon interacts with the components as if they were free. so @Carl's argument is rather misguided even though it is based on very reasonable principles: he just applying it outside it's range of validity. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 14:18 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | "HandEgg" is a slang term created to describe more accurately the shape of an American football and how it's transported, as opposed to Euro football aka soccer. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 14:14 | comment | added | divay pandey | ^i didnt get you, sorry? | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 13:29 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Hey, some of us are USAians, you (slashdot meme) insensitive clod! There are no nets in HandEgg :-) | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 12:53 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | I'd basically agree: the photons which do interact, e.g. visible, X-ray, do so because their energies are a match for various excitation states of electrons or nucleii. A superhigh energy photon w/ a wavelength below the whoozis limit won't interact except for a rare kinetic collision maybe :-) | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 12:13 | history | answered | divay pandey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |