The pyramid stuff in here is cool. But, I think the particle physics stuff is even coolerhttps://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/11/2/16594408/great-pyramid-giza-cosmic-rays-void-particle-physics-nature …
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Basically the upper atmosphere works like a particle accelerators like the LHC. Atoms, blasted toward earth by star explosions, meet our..
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..atmosphere and collide into it like shotgun pellets in a china shop. Those collisions release the subatomic particles that make up atoms
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and then, those subatomic particles rain down on us, traveling at nearly the speed of light. They're going so fast, they experience ...
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the time dilation predicted by Einstein's special relativity (that is, they age slower than they would traveling at our speeds)
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And then, we can essentially use this cosmic radiation to take x-rays of objects, like the pyramid.
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@KyleCranmer pointed me to this video of how you can make a particle detector at homehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQpXGQ4Igks …1 reply 1 retweet 2 likesShow this thread
The pyramids, on the other hand, are a pile of rocks unmoved for thousands of years. The the grander universe is so much more "whoaaa"
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