What would it be like to have gamma ray vision?
Ash K asked:
Gamma rays are the shortest and strongest waves of light. We can see visible light, a very short part of the spectrum. What if we could see gamma rays, what would it look like? Also, if you could see through objects with X-Ray vision (not sure if this is true) could you also do the same with gamma ray vision? And would the daily occurences of gamma ray bursts in the universe blind you by looking directly at them should they happen to be on your horizons, kind of like looking at the sun?
Gamma rays are the shortest and strongest waves of light. We can see visible light, a very short part of the spectrum. What if we could see gamma rays, what would it look like? Also, if you could see through objects with X-Ray vision (not sure if this is true) could you also do the same with gamma ray vision? And would the daily occurences of gamma ray bursts in the universe blind you by looking directly at them should they happen to be on your horizons, kind of like looking at the sun?
January 20th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
Awkward, since your eyes would be larger than your head and twenty feet or more apart…
Edit…oops… that would be radio vision.
Hmmm…being able to see the radiation beam that is about to kill you… I’ll pass.
January 23rd, 2009 at 6:06 am
It would be pretty boring. X-rays let you look through things because you can only see the things that absorb them, like bones - but there are few gamma rays on Earth. You’d see bricks, because there’s a small bit of radiactivity in bricks (slowly decaying) emitting gamma rays (not harmful), and you might see gamma ray bursts - but those only happen a few times a day, and last for less than a minute. You wouldn’t be blinded by grbs - it’s only a few photons. Not bright at all.
January 25th, 2009 at 4:46 am
Take a look and decide if you like it
January 27th, 2009 at 7:26 am
One correction first, Gamma rays are not light. It would be more proper to refer to them as electromagnetic radiation. Visible light is also electromagnetic radiation that just happens to be in a range that our eyes can perceive. As for what you would see, I think it would be pretty boring and render you almost blind. Remember, Gamma radiation is generated only in the most violent of events and as its particles are very energetic and pass through most of what they hit and therefore would not be reflected like visible light (which is how we see most of what we see) so if you were looking at the ground you would be almost blind, looking at the sky you would have a lot to look at. Remember, the back of your eye is also transparent to Gamma rays which means that unless your eyes were made of lead to stop the rays you would be totally blind.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
You would probably have a hard time seeing many solid things around you since gamma ray s would go right thourhg them