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Cosmic rays--even the name conjures up a vision of otherworldly mystery. Enigmatic for many years, they are now known to be not rays at all, but particles, the nuclei of atoms, raining down continually on the earth, where they can be detected throughout the atmosphere and sometimes even thousands of feet underground. This book tells the long-running detective story behind the discovery and study of cosmic rays, a story that stretches from the early days of subatomic particle physics in the 1890s to the frontiers of high ...

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A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space 2002, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674009899

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A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space 2000, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674002883

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A Thin Cosmic Rain: Particles from Outer Space 2000, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674332539

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