coreyspowell,
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The 300-square-mile Telescope Array experiment in Utah detected a cosmic ray with an energy of 240 quintillion electron volts. That's as much energy as a thrown brick, jammed into a single subatomic particle.

Nobody knows how it formed.

https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/cosmic-ray-2023/

On May 27, 2021, the Telescope Array experiment detected the second-highest extreme-energy cosmic ray. At 2.4 x 1020eV, the energy of this single subatomic particle is equivalent to dropping a brick on your toe from waist height. Led by the University of Utah (the U) and the University of Tokyo, the Telescope Array consists of 507 surface detector stations arranged in a square grid that covers 700 km2 (~270 miles2) outside of Delta, Utah in the state’s West Desert. The event triggered 23 detectors at the north-west region of the Telescope Array, splashing across 48 km2 (18.5 mi2). Its arrival direction appeared to be from the Local Void, an empty area of space bordering the Milky Way galaxy.

theothersimo,
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@coreyspowell it’s a weapon.

Wikisteff,
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@coreyspowell That's the path and intensity of the secondary particles hitting the detectors, yeah?

RodneyPetersonTalent,
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@coreyspowell

There’s a simple explanation.

God doesn’t like Mormons - or anybody else.

megatronicthronbanks,
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@coreyspowell
It followed us in from the previous universe

ParanoidFactoid,

@coreyspowell And no portal to hell formed. Which brings up the question: How is it the LHC at CERN, with collision energies many orders of magnitude less, has been known open portals to hell?

This is an important scientific question which needs addressing.

nazokiyoubinbou,
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@coreyspowell "Its arrival direction appeared to be from the Local Void, an empty area of space bordering the Milky Way galaxy."
😲 What?

joelvanderwerf,
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@coreyspowell A brick thrown in Utah, you say?

grb090423,
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    leaving_orbit,

    @grb090423
    Hm. Worked fine for me. Let's try again:
    https://attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff/cosmic-ray-2023/

    @coreyspowell

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