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Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures
Science News ^ | 4/22/2022 | Emily Conover

Posted on 04/23/2022 5:16:47 PM PDT by LibWhacker

Subatomic particles paint pictures of inner worlds of pyramids, volcanoes and more

illustration of muon particles raining down on the Great Pyramid of Giza - An invisible rain of the subatomic particles called muons pierces structures on Earth’s surface, including the Great Pyramid of Giza. Those muons can help map out the chambers within the pyramid and have even revealed an unexplained hidden void.

Inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza lies a mysterious cavity, its void unseen by any living human, its surface untouched by modern hands. But luckily, scientists are no longer limited by human senses.

To feel out the contours of the pyramid’s unexplored interior, scientists followed the paths of tiny subatomic particles called muons. Those particles, born high in Earth’s atmosphere, hurtled toward the surface and burrowed through the pyramid. Some of the particles imprinted hints of what they encountered on sensitive detectors in and around the pyramid. The particles’ paths revealed the surprising presence of the hidden chamber, announced in 2017 (SN: 11/25/17, p. 6).

That stunning discovery sparked plans among physicists to use muons to explore other archaeological structures. And some researchers are using the technique, called muography, to map out volcanoes’ plumbing. “You can see inside the volcano, really,” says geophysicist Giovanni Leone of Universidad de Atacama in Copiapó, Chile. That internal view could give scientists more information about how and when a volcano is likely to erupt.

(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; giza; godsgravesglyphs; muography; muon; muons; muontomography; particle; physics; scanpyramid; scanpyramids; science; stringtheory; subatomicparticles

1 posted on 04/23/2022 5:16:47 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Bm


2 posted on 04/23/2022 5:27:03 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: SunkenCiv

Ping


3 posted on 04/23/2022 5:30:36 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: LibWhacker

Fascinating stuff.


4 posted on 04/23/2022 5:34:14 PM PDT by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: LibWhacker

I can tell you right now that those muons are lying their a$$es off.


5 posted on 04/23/2022 5:37:51 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (Me 3 weeks ago: EVERYONE STOP GOING ON TWATTER. *Elon happens* Me: *goes on twatter twice a day*)
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To: LibWhacker

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=muon+linux&ia=web

Muon has been used for Linux/software stuff. The old KDE package(program) manager was named Muon and now there’s a decentralized network of some sort based on the blockchain..


6 posted on 04/23/2022 5:42:03 PM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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To: Pollard

I’m waiting for one that could look inside a womans head and tell us why they think the way they do.


7 posted on 04/23/2022 6:14:31 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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To: LibWhacker

Muons never could keep their big mouths shut.


8 posted on 04/23/2022 6:29:23 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: DarrellZero

;)

Mum’s the word!


9 posted on 04/23/2022 6:35:16 PM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️.)
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To: LibWhacker

Talkative little buggers, I guess ...


10 posted on 04/23/2022 6:42:12 PM PDT by x
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To: LibWhacker

They are developing a handheld version that can see what’s under women’s clothes; retails at $49.95 at Walmart.


11 posted on 04/23/2022 7:18:28 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: oldasrocks

“Does this dress make my ass look big?”

“No, I think it’s the muons doing that.”


12 posted on 04/23/2022 7:33:06 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: LibWhacker

I would love to see this done on Temple Mount to see if the Ark of the Covenant might be there - there are many hidden chambers there.


13 posted on 04/23/2022 10:10:16 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks AAABEST. Works for GGG as well.


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14 posted on 04/24/2022 11:49:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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15 posted on 04/24/2022 11:50:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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