Corey S Powell on Nostr: The 300-square-mile Telescope Array experiment in Utah detected a cosmic ray with an ...
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.
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