Death of the Sun TV - Star Trek: Voyager TV - Nova TV - Ernest Rutherford -
Solar flares release a cascade of high energy particles known as protons. Protons can pass through the human body potentially causing chromosome damage and even cancer. Death of the Sun
We’re being hit by proton bursts. Star Trek: Voyager s2e21: Deadlock, B’Elanna to Janeway
Protons may determine the identity of the element, but electrons rule its reactivity. Nova: Hunting the Elements I, PBS 2012
We have seen that a proton of energy corresponding to 30,000 volts can affect the transformation of lithium into two fast α-particles, which together have an energy equivalent of more than 16 million volts. Considering the individual process, the output of energy in the transmutation is more than 500 times greater than the energy carried by the proton. There is thus a great gain of energy in the single transmutation, but we must not forget that on an average more than 1000 million protons of equal energy must be fired into the lithium before one happens to hit and enter the lithium nucleus. Ernest Rutherford, 1933