Energetic Bullets Sent from Outer Space - Discover Our Universe
Join us as Dr. Ke Fang (Stanford University) discusses Energetic Bullets Sent from Outer Space in our 'Discover Our Universe' public lecture series followed by live online Q&A.
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It’s not just light we receive from the Universe. We receive cosmic particles on the Earth that have travelled enormous distances at incredibly high speeds. Some of these particles carry extreme energies, millions of times higher than we can achieve using man-made particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider, here on Earth. Half a century after their first discovery, these cosmic rays remain mysterious. Where do they come from? Is there a smoking gun signal from their origin? How does nature manage to accelerate them to such high energies? Learn about these energetic messengers and what they can tell us about the extreme activities of the Universe.