[Gllug] re: rf energy

[John Hearns]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Hearns wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Nix wrote:
> 
> > [1] pedants will point out that there is an upper bound to the
> >     intensity of photons producable by known physical processes at
> >     this point; but, well, the same laws applied at the Big Bang,
> >     when the upper bound didn't really apply; things got kind of hot
> >     at T=10^-35s...
> 
> I was once very  interested in high energy cosmic rays and extensive air 
> showers. Things like the Haverah Park array in Nottinghamshire,
> the Flys Eye array and the underwater photomultiplier arrays.

Going wildly off topic, here's a good page from the Nottingham group:
http://ast.leeds.ac.uk/haverah/hav-home.shtml
And I stand corrected - highest energy is 3 * 10**20 eV,
same as a tennis ball travelling at 180mph.


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