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Re: Juno radiation

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On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 16:12:37 -0400, Snowshoe wrote:

> Silly question:
> 
> Is there any sort of real-world equivalent/example 
>

No.  The question is not silly.

It is a question of QUANTITATIVE physics as opposed
to QUALITATIVE physics.

Because I have no experience in the quantitative aspects
of solar and cosmic radiation I cannot answer it directly.
(I suppose that only NASA scientists could and I doubt that
many of them hang out at sci.physics.)

But both the solar wind and cosmic radiation are composed
mainly of protons, and consequently there would be no earthly
equivalent source (aside from standing within the beam of
a proton accelerator).

Protons are equivalent to ionized hydrogen gas, and thus
both the solar wind and cosmic radiation would be equivalent
to being barraged by a very high speed gas, although the
gas would be of very low density.

Protons in an earthly particle accelerator have relativistic
velocities, but the protons in the solar wind do not.

 

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