NOUN
- highly penetrating ionizing radiation of extraterrestrial origin; consisting chiefly of protons and alpha particles; collision with atmospheric particles results in rays and particles of many kinds
How To Use cosmic ray In A Sentence
- After this he switched to research on cosmic rays. Times, Sunday Times
- Long also assumed that, like sunlight, most cosmic rays were reflected by the Earth's atmosphere, and that as one rose higher above the Earth, the energy from cosmic rays would grow stronger until they would heat Pat Marsh's balloon hundreds of degrees when it rose above the stratopause. Diagnosing "Cosmic Fever"
- Very early in the study of high-energy physics the only source of high energy particles was in cosmic rays (the first accelerators were not yet in existence).
- Glaser switched his area of research from bubble chambers and cosmic rays to molecular biology and biophysics.
- They are produced in the atmosphere by the interaction of galactic cosmic rays with the atoms of the atmosphere.
- The finding "implies that massive star-forming regions are the main source of cosmic rays in the Large Magellanic Cloud," Knödlseder said. Wired Top Stories
- Of all the impossible occurrences in Fantastic Four, none seems as implausible as scientist Reed Richards's scheme to make billions of dollars by studying the human genome through the exposure of plants - yes, plants - to cosmic rays.
- The picture provides evidence that supernovae are one source of cosmic rays, highly energetic particles that bombard the planet, passing through us in their thousands every day.
- Past accomplishments include in-situ sampling of atmospheric and magnetospheric regions that neither orbital spacecraft nor standard aircraft can reach, examining physical phenomena in microgravity conditions that are unattainable on the ground or only briefly available in drop towers and zero-g aircraft, using instruments too massive for spacecraft to detect cosmic rays that cannot be detected from the ground, and testing scientific instruments before committing to orbital or interplanetary flight. Next Generation: NASA Offers Grants for New-Space Research Concepts
- Furthermore, as you noted in the original comment, very long-tailed stochastic processes have been identified in solar behavior, while other quasi-periodic astronomical phenomena eg changes in earth orbital parameters, fluctuations in cosmic ray influx etc that have been identified as possible climate drivers would also lead to long period autocorrelations in climate variables. Cohn and Lins [GRL 2005] « Climate Audit
