Tuesday, March 08, 2005

And God Said...

...Let there be light.

Is this poetry? Metaphor? or Science?

Put aside the question of how you get sound without air for the moment, and check this out...It turns out that when pulsing sound waves compress bubbles in a liquid the result is observed as flashes of light, something they call "sonoluminescence"...now some scientists claim to have measured the temperature inside the bubbles...their answer? 15,000ÂșC or 4 x hotter than the Sun and hot enough to fuel a fusion reaction...here's the article...
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Son of Sonofusion

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