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Many Tiny Bullets
a: Gamma ray ~
b: bullet
What: "Higher frequencies such as ultraviolet begin to affect chemical bonds. As chemical bonds are destroyed, so are the workings of the cells in our skin. Very high frequency photons, such as x-rays and gamma-rays are like tiny bullets shooting through your body. They have a greater chance of passing through without hitting anything, but when they do they cause damage."
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Writer: Lodar of the Hill People
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Date: Aug 26 2013 4:44 PM
# 3600 Critique Analogy
Ouch
a: Gamma ray ~
b: a wind blowing over our lawn
What: "Gamma rays are like a wind blowing over our lawn. It occasionally blows down a blade of grass but mostly it just passes through undisturbed."...and
"Alpha radiation is like a big heavy ball rolled across a lawn. It doesn't go very far because it loses a lot of energy flattening out the bumps in the ground. In other words the heavy ball interacts strongly with the ground."
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Writer: Furry Elephant
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Date: Aug 26 2013 4:47 PM
# 3603 Critique Analogy
a: Gamma ray ~
b: disfunctional family
What: "Gamma rays are like dysfunctional families because they are both harmful. In a way, both can harm you greatly and possibly kill you. But in another way both have negative and positive events. Dysfunctional families could impact your life and could hurt you, just like gamma rays. Gamma rays can penetrate through skin, just like dysfunctional families. When you are hurt, you're not only hurt on the outside, but also on the inside." The link is a whole list of associations between this form of radiation and families.
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Writer: Ash, Josh
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Date: Aug 26 2013 4:53 PM
# 3604 Critique Analogy
The Apex Particle?
a: Gamma ray ~
b: cheetahs
What: " Gamma rays are like cheetahs: they are the charismatic megafauna of the particle world. They are light of the maximum possible potency, usually defined as a wavelength shorter than 10sup-11 meter--a realm where light's wave nature is hard to observe"
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Writer: G Musser
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Date: Aug 26 2013 4:58 PM
# 3605 Critique Analogy
a: Gamma ray ~
b: Spock's phaser weapo
What: "Gamma rays are like the rays from Spock's phaser weapon. High energy waves." A link to 3 types of radiation and some discussion of them too.
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Aug 26 2013 5:01 PM
# 3606 Critique Analogy
Within Pulsars....
a: Gamma ray ~
b: seeing the Ferrari take off
What: "The radio waves are like the hum of a Ferrari. It certainly doesn't tell the whole story about the energy that can be unleashed. But the gamma rays are like seeing the Ferrari take off," Romani said. "Now we have a real chance at understanding the power coming out of pulsars."
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Writer: Patrick Nolan
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Date: Aug 26 2013 5:06 PM
# 3607 Critique Analogy
For A Given Radioactive Material
a: Gamma ray ~
b: fingerprints
What: "Radionuclides must emit gamma rays to be analyzed directly by gamma spectroscopy, Gamma rays are like fingerprints: they have specific
energies that can be used to identify the radioactive."
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Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Aug 26 2013 5:11 PM
# 3608 Critique Analogy
Long Skinny And Penetrating
a: Gamma ray ~
b: a nuclear needle
What: "A gamma ray is like a nuclear needle; it makes a quick, exceedingly narrow
passage through the body, limiting damage to a small number of cells." From page 632 of the linked text.
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Writer: Mark S. Cracolice, Edward I. Peters
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Date: Aug 26 2013 5:18 PM
# 3609 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.