you are dead either way
It’s a boy(kisser)!
This is why you don’t circumcise your baby, especially with a screwdriver…
If it flashes it’s dead. 😭😅
The demon core is, at the same time, the dumbest thing I’ve heard someone do, and yet…
“Here’s a vessel containing the most powerful force yet discovered. Nobody’s seen it in person before. A quick peek probably won’t kill you.”
“Hmmm… fuck it.”
For when you’re dying to know the sex.
So its was boy! Does that mean little boy is now a big brother?
Nope. Fat man.
With one eye and three hands
All I know is that little boy was the last kid of his father.
If this thing is emitting light that appears blue to you, you’re about to have a monumentally bad time
Good old Cherenkov radiation. Always reliable.
Somebody please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe due to the very low refractive index of about 1.0003, particles need tremendous energy to produce Cherenkov radiation in atmosphere. So the demon core flashes (while perhaps some negligible part Cherenkov) were probably mostly just from the ionization of the air, and subsequent nitrogen/oxygen fluorescence.
If my awful phone math is right, you’d need about 21 MeV of energy for an electron to produce Cherenkov radiation. I think the processes producing energetic electrons here (Compton scattering, some pair production, photoelectric effect, internal conversion, delta rays, and Bremsstrahlung cascade I believe) should regularly produce energies around 10 MeV at most (from Compton).
IIRC the flash wasn’t discernable from being the air or the aqueous/vitreous humor in the eye.
I think it’s been hypothesized that the eye jello allows for a much lower energy particle to to create the flash. They do know it’s possible to induce it, but it’s not exactly ethical to test the conditions that created the various criticality accidents to find out.
I heard it’s also possible that the radiation hit your retina and make your neurons go off? Maybe even your vision cortex?
Oh cool! I hadn’t considered that. The crystallin and vitreous humor in the eye do indeed have a refractive index similar to water, so Cherenkov radiation happens at less than 1 MeV IIRC, so it comes down to how much light would actually be produced in such a small volume. It does seem perfectly feasible!
So we can see radiation afferall
I’ve heard of people accidentally making IEDs for gender reveal, now I’ve heard of everything.
