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Amaterasu the most powerful cosmic ray seen in three decades seems to come from an empty point of the sky. New telescopes may solve the mystery of its origins ....
"All our sweetest hours fly the fastest." -Virgil If you've been around the block once or twice, you know that the speed of light in a vacuum 299,792,458 meters-per-second is the absolute maximum speed that any form of energy in the Universe can travel at. In shorthand, this speed is known as c to physicists. ....
To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In the 1930s, the French physicist Pierre Auger placed Geiger counters along a ridge in the Alps and observed that they would sometimes spontaneously click at the same time, even when they were up to 300 meters apart. He knew that the coincident clicks came from cosmic rays, charged particles from space that bang into air molecules in the sky, triggering particle showers that rain down to the ground. But Auger realized that for cosmic rays to trigger the kind of enormous showers he was seeing, they must carry fantastical amounts of energy so much, he wrote in 1939, that “it is actually impossible to imagine a single process able to give to a particle such an energy.” ....