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1 July 2010
Mayan ancient text speaks
of an energy coming from the galaxy "Milky Way" which will participate in ushering in a new state of existence.
It has become clear the method of "transition" will come from "charged particles".
Yesterday's scientific news release defines this very process. There is now confirmation that galactic cosmic
rays are made of protons. Scientists at the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) detector, determined that the positively-charged
components found in the center of each atom are what make up cosmic rays. Previously they had not been sure that the high-energy
rays hadn't been something heavier, such as the nucleus of an iron atom.
Cosmic rays have energies that can be much higher than anything produced by physicists. HiRes looks
at the composition of cosmic rays with energies a million times greater than those generated on Earth, such as in the accelerator
at the Large Hadron Collider.Cosmic rays, originating
outside our Milky Way galaxy, slam into our atmosphere, where they set up a shower of secondary particles. These particles
cause nitrogen molecules in the air to glow slightly. The energy of the glow is recorded in sensitive photo-detectors attached
to the telescopes. The particles made a conical pattern and deposited a characteristic energy spray in the detectors.
The HiRes detector can even determine the direction of the incoming cosmic ray. John
Belz, a team member from the University of Utah, says that setting two sets of telescopes provides the stereo "seeing"
needed to trace the cosmic ray's incoming trajectory. The two arrays, each covering several acres, stand about 7 miles
apart. The ray's origin can be pinpointed to a region about as big as the full moon.
The experimenters logged data for several years between May 1997 and
April 2006 and recently published their work in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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