This New OMG Particle Is Too Powerful To Make Sense!
Everything in the universe is made of atoms, and every atom is made of particles.
These are the building blocks of all things. Everything you see around you is nothing else than agglomerates of particles. This is what you ultimately are: a giant, funny ensemble of particles. They are very different from each other: electrons, protons, and neutrons, just to name a few, but some of them are insanely special and, therefore, puzzling.
In this video we are gonna talk about the Amaterasu particle, This was a cosmic ray detected in 2021. It took scientists 2 years to identify it, but now we know it possessed an energy exceeding 240 exa-electronvolts. And, even more exciting, it came from the Local Void, a region in the universe that, as far as we know, is essentially empty.
So how the heck was this particle produced?
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Cosmic Rays: What are they?
Let’s start by saying that cosmic rays…are not actually rays.
They are particles – very powerful ones, I must admit. So, just like any other quantum object, such as photons or electrons, they can be described as waves and as particles.
Earth and Cosmic Rays
The Earth's magnetic field is a complex, dynamic force field that surrounds the Earth and is created by the movement of molten iron in the Earth's core. The Earth's magnetic field is shaped like an oblate spheroid, with a slight tilt relative to the Earth's axis of rotation.
One of the main functions of the Earth's magnetic field is to shield the Earth from cosmic radiation.
Where do cosmic rays come from?
So now bear with me, 'cause things are about to get wild.
Decades of measurements have helped scientists map out the energy spectrum of cosmic rays observed from Earth. This famous plot, shown in this figure,
The Crazy Amaterasu particle and the GZK limit
The omg particle and the Amaterasu particle are both examples of what are known as ultra-high energy cosmic rays, or UHECRs. Even though it is very hard to understand where these particles come from, and where exactly they originated, the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin (GZK) theory could help us constrain their origin, by means of the GZK limit.
This is a theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic rays originating from outside our galaxy. It is named after the physicists Kenneth Greisen, Georgiy Zatsepin, and Vadim Kuzmin, who independently proposed the limit in the 1960s.
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00:00 Intro
1:12 cosmic rays
5:02 earth and cosmic rays
6:44 where do cosmic rays come from?
8:18 Omg particle
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