[neverdem]

SUBATOMIC ARCHAEOLOGY. Physicists plan to use muons generated by cosmic rays to probe the interior of the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán.
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[P8riot]

Teotihuacán has not been proved to be Mayan. It pre-dates the Mayan civilization.

[ari-freedom]

I think we could find a few military applications for this technology, dontcha think?

[Larry Lucido]

I don’t mind the muouns.

[james500]

“With muons, all you need is a way to capture them and analyze their trajectories.”

It’s just that easy!

[james500]

“”It measures the track of every muon going through the vehicle,” Morris says. “In 20 seconds you can detect whether or not they have a chunk of metal that’s 4 inches by 4 inches by 4 inches. If you went a little longer, you can see something smaller.””

Or, I guess, one could detect a larger, submarine shaped chunk of metal at a further distance.

[LibWhacker]

Fascinating, thanks. Nice list of possible applications at the end of the article. What wasn’t listed, but came immediately to mind, was using muon detectors to find caves and tunnels inside mountains, such as those used by al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Seems like a perfect fit.

[neverdem]

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[Squantos]

The never ending quest for unobtainium ..........:o)

[bt_dooftlook]

Um, not so fast...

If I understand the technology correctly (which is a BIG assumption), you need a device to transmit muons and another device on the far side of the target to detect the trajectory deviations, so detecting submarines and tunnels might be difficult...

[SunkenCiv]

alas...

Muons Meet Maya
Science News | 12-8-2007 | Betsy Mason
Posted on 12/08/2007 10:18:09 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936809/posts

not to mention:

Space dust to unlock Mexican pyramid secrets
Reuters via MSNBC | Updated: 01:58 PM PT March16, 2004 | By Alistair Bell
Posted on 03/18/2004 8:34:06 PM EST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1100810/posts

Cosmic Rays To Solve Ancient Mexican (Pyramid) Mystery
Scotsman | 2-21-2005 | John von Radowitz
Posted on 02/21/2005 3:26:52 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1348047/posts

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[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Ooooh.

Similar to the Stargate SG-1 episode about muons and a Mayan-themed civilization (with Daniel's crazy grandfather).

[aruanan]

I climbed that pyramid in January, 1977. If you go all the way up quickly without stopping, you get real dizzy!

[Physicist]

Schwitters won't be the first to marry physics and archaeology in this way. In 1967, Nobel prize–winning physicist Luis Alvarez of the University of California, Berkeley placed a muon detector in a chamber beneath the pyramid of Khafra in Egypt to see if it was hiding any burial chambers like those discovered in the larger pyramid of Khufu. He found none, but the experiment showed that the method worked.

Alvarez used to bristle when people said he found no hidden chambers in the pyramid. It's not that he found no hidden chambers, it's that he found there were no hidden chambers.

[headsonpikes]

So these muons are yielding a new cowsmology, I gather.