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Sunday, June 02, 2013

Outer Space Adventure - Part 4 - Solving Cosmic Radiations Problem

Firstly, for those who does not know about this already, I would like to introduce that Electromagnetic Waves IS photons vibrating on different frequencies. (They should just rename the entire thing to "Photon Spectrum", since previously these stuffs are named as "Electromagnetic Spectrum" because they use electric to generate all these lights and waves and these stuffs generate magnetic field of its own and the light particle is yet to be discovered)

Secondly, for those who does not know how these photons works.
Case 1: Photons travelling through Glass
    - What happens here?
       1) When the photon goes near to the glass, it gets nearer and nearer to the glass on 1 side until it's pulled by the glass's molecule and bend towards another direction.
       2) During it's time in between the glass, there will be a lot of bending around but the direction does not change much because there are glass molecules all around neutralizing the attraction force. Of course there will be possibility of collision during the photon's travelling within the glass.
       3) When the photon leaving the glass, the side that it's leaning upon have more attraction force towards it and thus it will continue bend that photon back to it's original direction.
    - Why we still can see through glass like nothing all the time when there is possibility of collision between the photon and the molecules? Simple, because there are tons of them flying non stop. Notice that there is brightness/contrast difference when we see something through and without a glass.
    - We can see through glass because of the big glass's molecule gap. When the photon go through the glass, the direction it travel will be affected by the glass's molecules since there will be attraction force between 2 masses (Photon and glass's molecule), and when the nearer both of the mass is, the greater attraction force will be between them. (Some relativity theory)

Okay, what is cosmic radiation?
Cosmic radiations means photons, vibrating at frequencies higher than Visible Light flying around everywhere at space. The source of these photons are (I guess everyone knows already) those burning spheres like our sun out there.
The electromagnetic spectrum on top is just what Human discovered at the moment, possibility of much higher frequencies of these waves exists out there.

So yeah, why is these radiations are to be take note off?
Because, these stuffs can pierce into human cells and alter our DNA to become something else resulting mutated DNA and will cause cancers, diseases, birth defects, etc etc. Depending on their frequency, the Higher frequency/Shorter wavelength it is, the higher piercing power it has.

How do we stop these thing from piercing human body?
(For Space Suit)
Currently the space suit is manufactured using some reflective material. (Not that effective to block these cosmic radiation and looks lame thou... :P). I propose that we add external lead shield to these space suit.
(For Giant Space Craft)
Lead Shield + Reflective Shield + Generate Magnetic Field surrounding the space craft.

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