This Atom Can Predict The Future
Many of the bewildering correlations in our world - like that between Beryllium-7 and the Asian monsoon - are a result of huge and unseen forces that tie them together.
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Show Notes
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- Monsoon: A seasonal increase in precipitation driven by atmospheric conditions.
- Hadley Cell: A global scale atmospheric cell driven by air rising near the equator and falling as it flows towards the polls.
- Ferrel Cell: A secondary atmospheric circulation that collides with the Hadley cell and pushes air back down towards the Earth’s surface.
- Intertropical Convergence Zone: The narrow zone between the northern and southern Hadley cells where warm air comes together and rises.
- Tropopause: The boundary area roughly 15 kilometers above the Earth’s surface between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
- Radionuclide: Isotopes of atoms that release radiation as they break down.
- Beryllium-7: A relatively stable radionuclide of the element Beryllium that naturally forms in the tropopause during spallation.
- Spallation: The process in which a heavier atom loses nuclear particles after being bombarded by cosmic rays.
- Cosmic Rays: High energy atomic particles that move at near light speed through space.
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