Cosmic Rays
Table of contents COSMIC RAYS View my previous post here - The Survival of a Neutron View the next article here - (Coming soon!) ----------------------------------------- Cosmic Rays are super fast subatomic particles "raining" down on us from space. These high-energy particles arriving from outer space are mainly (89%) protons – nuclei of hydrogen, the lightest and most common element in the universe – but they also include nuclei of helium (10%) and heavier nuclei (1%), all the way up to uranium. (Source of information: CERN) Their origin remains to be a mystery. These are radiations or rather little bits of atoms whizzing by us, even through us, all the time! We cannot feel them, because they don't affect the human body . However, they do show their presence in different ways. For instance, they cause computers to malfunction . Scientists have been studying cosmic rays since the early 1900s. At the beginning of the 20th century, around 1911, a physicist, Vict