I saw a post on here showing the ‘shadow’ of a boy standing near the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bomb explosion, it’s not actually his shadow but just the spot that didn’t get ‘bleached’ by the damage of the explosion. I read that he was vaporized in quite a lot of comments on this case but one comment explained that the boy wasn’t actually vaporized, but how did he actually die? Where is his corpse or what’s left of it? How is the damage of atomic bombs different than ‘normal’ bombs used in wars?
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Its like putting a sticker on your arm and getting a suntan.
Peel off the sticker and you have a “shadow” of the sticker.
That’s what happened here. The whole city got an instant suntan from the UV light from the bomb, it’s just that the person blocked it in the instant the bomb went off. It was the world’s worst camera flash.
There’s other pictures of leaves and pipes casting the same shadow. There must be a focus effect in play, only things on the ground or close too it would leave a shadow, the light would bounce around behind anything else and suntan the shadow away.
ELI5: The nuke threw a bucket of “suntan paint” everywhere. Its not that the person left a shadow, it’s that everything in the city got a suntan and the shadow is actually the original color of the city before it got irradiated.
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