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Aren't muons terrestrial particles created by cosmic ray impacts on the atmosphere, though?
by SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
Aren't muons terrestrial particles created by cosmic ray impacts on the atmosphere, though?
- archgoon 9y agoWell, yes; but calling them "exotic-in-the-sense-we-don't-talk-about-them-very-much-even-though-they-pass-by-all-the-time-that-got-created-when-an-actual-space-particle-that-wasn't-that-exotic-like-a-proton-or-helium-atom-hit-the-atmosphere particles called muons" doesn't quite roll off the tongue. :) They ultimately (and not in the we're all space dust sense, more like 2.2 microseconds ago sense) are caused by interactions with particles from outer space, so calling them space particles, isn't that bad. :) But yeah; it's does elide that aspect of them.