Sam Kean

Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

American Writer

Ramez Naam

Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

John Hersey

The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.

Claude Nicollier

In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

American Astronaut

Timothy Murphy

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

American Politician

Walther Bothe

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

German Physicist

Frederick Reines

I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

American Physicist

John Hull

There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk.

Mathematician

Ronnie Montrose

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

American Musician

Understand the importance of the Greek alphabet in academic contexts and its historical influence on science and mathematics.

Greek Origin

Remember that despite resembling the English 'Y', the gamma represents a different sound and meaning in Greek.

Not English 'Y'

Be aware that gamma is associated with strong radiation and is often used in medical and scientific fields.

Radiation Awareness

Understand that gamma radiation can be harmful, which is why it's carefully used and controlled in technical settings.

Safety Precaution

Know that when talking about gamma in physics, it often relates to measurements of Earth's magnetic field, not just strength.

Magnetic Fields

Recognize gamma as a unit, similar to meters or liters, but specifically for magnetic fields.

Measurement Unit

In military or aviation settings, 'gamma' can stand for 'G' in the NATO phonetic alphabet for clear radio communications.

Communication Code

In photography, know that adjusting gamma changes the contrast, brightening or darkening the image.

Image Contrast

Gamma in biology refers to proteins like gamma globulins, vital for the immune system to fight infections.

Immune Proteins

 solar activities that we have ever seen, Alright? So lots of gamma rays, bad stuff are... the sun burped, bad stuff goes flying through interstellar space. So what did we do? First time ever when we were flying a spacecraft into deep space we actually rebooted the computer.

The Curious Life of a...

 observed a neutron star collision. Other telescopes picked up a burst of gamma rays and a flash of light, and, later, x-rays and radio signals, all from the same impact. That became the most studied event in the history of astronomy. It yielded a treasure trove of data

The life cycle of a...

 In that final second, its event horizon becomes increasingly tiny, until finally releasing all of its energy back into the universe. And while Hawking radiation has never been directly observed, some scientists believe that certain gamma ray flashes detected in the sky

Can a black hole be...

 where these gamma ray blobs are forming, we can better understand how jets are being accelerated, and ultimately reveal the dynamic processes by which some of the most fascinating objects in our universe are formed. This all started as a love story. And it still is.

Jedidah Isler: How I...

 little Rockets were being built no computer in the world had the capacity to handle the gamma radiation the temperatures of thousands of degrees to actually control the nozzles and there were Russian rockets flying around working with tiny little fluid computers

Computing with fluids PIPE...

 infrared, and visible light. At the higher end are ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma rays. Modern society is shaped by sending and detecting electromagnetic radiation. We might download an email to our phone via radio waves to open an image of an X-ray print,

Is radiation dangerous?...

 The neutrinos it detects should finally tell us where cosmic rays come from and how they reached such extreme energies. Light, from infrared, to x-rays, to gamma rays, has given us increasingly energetic and continuously surprising views of the universe.

Why neutrinos matter -...

 Here's why. Photons are produced by the nuclear reactions deep in the core of our Sun. As the photons flow out of the core, they interact with matter and lose energy, becoming longer wavelength forms of light. They start out as gamma rays in the core,

Sunlight is way older...

 The light that our eyes can see, including all of the colors of the rainbow, is just a small part of the larger spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, which includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, and gamma rays.

How quantum mechanics...

 and infrared waves emitted by fires. On the other are short, high-frequency ultraviolet, X, and gamma radiation. Unlike low-frequency waves, these waves can pass through the human body making them useful