Many years ago scientists observed a miraculous phenomenon in
which they observed a slight electrical motion in the air in a tightly sealed
glass tube. They closed various enclosures around the glass tube and when the
air inside the glass tube showed electrical activity, many scientists began to
investigate the cause of this electrical activity.
They learned that some
radiation must enter through the glass tube and that it was a new type of
radiation that we did not know about before. Various research was done to
find out where this mysterious ray movement comes from. Experiments conducted
by scientists proved that the radiation did not come from the earth or the
ocean.
The scientists concluded that these rays do not come from the Sun either because day and night are equal on Earth. Then scientists sent a large balloon-like system high into space and discovered that there was mysterious radiation in space.
They discovered that
throughout this infinite space, there was a new kind of radiation that came to
be known as cosmic rays. What are cosmic rays, how do they form and where do
they come from are still unanswered questions.
Cosmic rays enter Earth's atmosphere at speeds almost
equal to the speed of light. These rays collide with atoms in the air, resulting in several particles that travel in the same direction
as the faster elementary particles and collide with other atoms to form new
particles called secondary cosmic rays.
Those particles also collide with other atoms to produce new particles. Cosmic rays do not cause any danger to the Earth, Cosmic rays have been coming into the Earth for billions of years and thus there is no harm to the Earth. Even today, scientists cannot say where cosmic rays come from.
The world has seen a dramatic change in today's space
exploration. As space exploration continues, we may soon unravel where the cosmic rays we detect in the Earth's atmosphere come from.
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