 Warm up the dilithium matrix...
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Conundrum
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Fri Dec 23 2011, 07:39PM
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Heh.
Now where did I put my schematics for the Phoenix warp ship? 
On the flip side, I have a theory written down weeks ago here about something very much like the quoted article which neatly explains a certain short lived atmospheric phenomena of which we are not allowed to mention by name.
If anyone is interested, the basic idea is that during a rare positive lightning strike the unusually strong plasma channel acts as a conduit for positronium "molecules" to travel from their production areas at high altitude to near the ground, as the plasma channel starts to collapse the molecules get compressed down to generate a brief short lived quasi-plasma consisting of argon and other atmospheric gases fluorescing on the outer shell with the positronium Rydberg matter within.
The lifetime of such a phenomena would be highly variable, depending on the number of positronium molecules as well as the size of the orbitals, possibly a resonance effect adding to the stability where the bulk keeps the outer molecules "topped up" with radio frequency energy.
As it turns out, this might have been seen already as "terrestrial gamma ray flashes" which in some cases occur seconds AFTER the detected lightning discharge.
It might be possible to measure the path of such a phenomena by using an array of photomultiplier or large area Geiger tubes spread over a large area configured as a giant PET scanner, as the 511 KeV photons would propagate at right angles so if two tubes see an event at the exact same time then there is clearly an event of interest at a location between the two at low altitude.
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