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    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...yramid-physics

    Inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza lies a mysterious cavity, its void unseen by any living human, its surface untouched by modern hands. But luckily, scientists are no longer limited by human senses.

    To feel out the contours of the pyramid’s unexplored interior, scientists followed the paths of tiny subatomic particles called muons. Those particles, born high in Earth’s atmosphere, hurtled toward the surface and burrowed through the pyramid. Some of the particles imprinted hints of what they encountered on sensitive detectors in and around the pyramid. The particles’ paths revealed the surprising presence of the hidden chamber, announced in 2017 (SN: 11/25/17, p. 6).

    That stunning discovery sparked plans among physicists to use muons to explore other archaeological structures. And some researchers are using the technique, called muography, to map out volcanoes’ plumbing. “You can see inside the volcano, really,” says geophysicist Giovanni Leone of Universidad de Atacama in Copiapó, Chile. That internal view could give scientists more information about how and when a volcano is likely to erupt.

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    Default Re: Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures

    Perhaps they could use this technique to expose hidden chambers under the Giza plateau, as well as the reported hidden train tunnels that crisscross the world , and their connected dumbs?

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    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...t-pyramid-giza

    High-energy particles from outer space have helped uncover an enigmatic void deep inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.

    Using high-tech devices typically reserved for particle physics experiments, researchers peered through the thick stone of the largest pyramid in Egypt for traces of cosmic rays and spotted a previously unknown empty space. The mysterious cavity is the first major structure discovered inside the roughly 4,500-year-old Great Pyramid since the 19th century, researchers report online November 2 in Nature.

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    Default Re: Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures

    Almost called my cat Muon years ago, such an exciting discovery, but called him Atom instead, as he was a tom…RIP wee chap.
    Glad Muons are again resurfacing…
    The love you withhold is the pain that you carry
    and er..
    "Chariots of the Globs" (apols to Fat Freddy's Cat)

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    Default Re: Muons spill secrets about Earth’s hidden structures

    Quote Posted by avid (here)
    Almost called my cat Muon years ago, such an exciting discovery, but called him Atom instead, as he was a tom…RIP wee chap.
    Glad Muons are again resurfacing…
    That is particularly good wordplay 🤣😂😆😅

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    Quote Posted by avid (here)
    Almost called my cat Muon years ago, such an exciting discovery, but called him Atom instead, as he was a tom…RIP wee chap.
    Glad Muons are again resurfacing…
    I've had my cat for 6 months (a very hungry stray that I befriended) and I still just call him "black cat" or "kitty" or "You idiot! What the hell are you doing!??" ... Muon sounds like a pretty cool name, but I fear "black cat" has already stuck, lol.
    When you are one step ahead of the crowd, you are a genius.
    Two steps ahead, and you are deemed a crackpot.

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