In nuclear bomb explosions, witness describe their hands becoming transparent. How does that happen?
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In nuclear bomb explosions, witness describe their hands becoming transparent. How does that happen?
Witnesses of nuclear explosions have described their hands becoming transparent, and that they could see the bones. For example, see here. How does that happen?
It's a video with people who describe how their hands turned transparent. I'd only heard that story from one person, who heard it from someone else, his granddad I think, and that video has first-hand sources that corroborate the story.
– radon
2 hours ago
Supported on this video . I disagree with the premise of the question.
– user190081
2 hours ago
X-ray specs illusion? Caused by squinting through eyelashes?
– besmirched
2 hours ago
you should give a link to the video that claims this
– anna v
2 hours ago
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Have you never seen the bones of your hand when covering a flash light at night? Imo it was just a very bright light over a large area and trying to shield the eyes the bones were seen.
That was my best guess as well. Will see if the question produces an idea that is better then that. It would be interesting to reproduce (not just with a flashlight, but with a light source equivalent to what those people experienced. )
– radon
51 mins ago
it seems that intensities of explosions are kilojoules per meter squared books.google.gr/… , a bit hard to reproduce in the lab
– anna v
42 mins ago
@annav You might be surprised. It's hard to compare a deposited energy density to an energy flux, but if I'm reading the Synlight press material correctly, they can achieve intensities of the order of 10 MW/m$^2$ for extended periods of time, so they'd be able to deposit that energy density (though maybe only on a small target?) in a small fraction of a second. You certainly don't want to put human test subjects there, but it looks doable to me.
– Emilio Pisanty
10 mins ago
Skin and flesh are of different ability to stop light. Extremely bright light can be detected through a thin layer of skin.
Also, a nuclear weapon releases electromagnetic energy all up and down the spectrum. Different wavelengths have different ability to penetrate. Here is a guy showing interesting effects with infrared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaKxCMPLhTE
His example is a lot of fun because the wavelengths he is using penetrate but don't do any harm. The radiation released by a nuclear weapon includes wavelengths that are very harmful. But they can penetrate and scatter. When they scatter there is some tendency for them to scatter to lower wavelengths which are then visible.
In the video you cite, the person is using an IR camera, he mentions "Quite bright but you have to use an IR camera; you will not see anything with bare eyes. "
– radon
2 hours ago
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What purpose does the photo serve except to waste bandwidth and storage ? People seem to think they should attach a photo to everything these days.
– StephenG
2 hours ago