Did someone say 'cosmic rays'?
Just damn.
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Posted on 02/21/2005 6:26:33 PM PST by wagglebee
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Might be a fun science experiment in the Great Pyramid, too.
Art bell where are you????!! Hahaha
wow!
" the earliest large metropolis".
i'll bet they landed a man or woman on the moon
circa 1000 a.d. (/s)
Every once in awhile I read a post where I understand nothing.
Did someone say 'cosmic rays'?
Just damn.
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How many among those pyramids who'd had their still beating hearts torn out?
Oldest "civilization". What a load.
Hmmm. That would mean that they're travelling at least 129 times the speed of light.
As a matter of fact, that experiment has been done. The Nobel prizewinner Luis Alvarez developed this cosmic ray technique for the pyramids of Giza.
Alvarez would bristle whenever someone said that he failed to discover any hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid. In truth, he succeeded in proving that there were no hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid.
The muons have a half-life of 2.2 microseconds. At the speed of light this would give a range of only 660 m. However, at relativistic speeds, the lifetime of the muon, as we perceive it, is much longer. Given a minimal 2 GeV muon (rest mass = 0.1 GeV):
Think of it as being just like an x-ray of your body. X-rays shine right through you, for the most part, but the denser parts of you stop more of the x-rays. That's why images of your bones show up on the film: they're dense enough to stop most of the x-rays, while your bulging biceps and rippling pectoral muscles are not.
This method doesn't work on a pyramid, because it's too dense to let any of the x-rays through. Muons, however, can do the job, because they can travel through a whole lot of matter before they stop. The denser the matter, though, the more of the muons it will stop. If there's a hollow chamber hidden away somewhere in the structure, more muons will pass through that part of the structure than if it were just solid stone.
Furthermore, muons are constantly raining down on us from the sky, so you don't need to set up a beam like you do with an x-ray machine. If you just wait long enough, you can collect enough muons to make as detailed an exposure as you like.
Good grief! Am I the LAST person to hear about this??!! Thank you, Physicist. I'll go catch up on the subject at once! :)
BTW, I saw your full Bio the other day when you posted to that jerk. Congrats on your new endevors. And, say hello to the family for me.
So9
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