Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: green stars Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 12:14:22 +0200 Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4086727.KTUO2iM4mc@PointedEars.de> References: <560E3D7D.3AA6@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit X-Trace: solani.org 1443867264 26262 eJwNwokVADEEBcCWCL4oxxH9l7D7ZkzAaFcY1NaW0jUDuDt+4zfKBdSTQx1DqbQdJaxnnx/5ABEeELE= (3 Oct 2015 10:14:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 10:14:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/4.14.2 X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLJRBgcvoE/xJ2R0/LW5HM4HDqbaPFOO35nj5XjgvjDsHxDBK67Syfln/VUoE3VmKi9QNO5RUr Cancel-Lock: sha1:6OdS4m2HzLNPZdcaTi3SQ26lHds= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQERACAIA8BKDBhiHOVc/wj+Mwo1K4uVFBVH0AQSKmxKffC2I1pduG7uMe9y2TxLzQcXPxD0 Xref: csiph.com sci.physics:524361 Odd Bodkin wrote: > On 10/2/2015 8:30 AM, john wrote: >> No center because no big bang > > Then what's your rationale for the temperature of the cosmic ray > background, The term you were probably looking for is Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is low-energy thermal (infrared) electromagnetic radiation *now* (2.725 K ≙ 0.23 meV [sic] by E = kT). “Cosmic rays” are like the opposite of that: high-energy, ionizing radiation consisting primarily of high-energy protons and atomic nuclei even though they may also produce air showers that include electromagnetic radiation, where the particle energy corresponds to very high temperatures and electromagnetic radiation with maxima beyond the ultraviolet range of the spectrum (1.16 × 10¹³ K to 1.16 × 10²⁴ K ≙ 10⁹ to 10²⁰ eV). > and its complete alignment with the blackbody spectrum, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hmmm. PointedEars -- Q: What happens when electrons lose their energy? A: They get Bohr'ed. (from: WolframAlpha)