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Title: . Title: China to build high altitude observatory to monitor cosmic rays
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Published: Sep 12, 2015
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Post Date: 2015-09-12 21:54:43 by Tatarewicz
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CHENGDU, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will invest more than one billion yuan (about 157 million U.S. dollars) to build a high altitude observatory in the southwest to monitor cosmic rays, local authorities said on Friday.

The observatory, the second of its kind in China, will be built in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze in southwest China's Sichuan Province, said Cao Zhen, a research fellow with the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Garze government and IHEP inked an agreement on Wednesday that will see the observatory built on Haizi Mountain in Daocheng County, where the average altitude is 4,410 meters.

"With an acute gamma ray detector, it is the world's second most expensive cosmic ray observatory, after the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica," said Cao Zhen.

The observatory will be able to cover an area of one million square meters, detecting rays whose energy range from one billion trillion to 10,000 billion trillion volts.

Cao didn't give a timetable for construction of the observatory.

Discovered in 1912, cosmic rays are high energy charged particles from outer space that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the Earth from all directions. The study of cosmic rays could help people learn about supernova explosions, black holes and the origin of the universe.

Study of cosmic rays began in China in 1951. Currently, most research is done in the Yangbajain cosmic rays monitoring station in Tibet. Editor: Xiang Bo

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)

To monitor them or start sending a few?

NeoconsNailed  posted on  2015-09-12   22:08:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

detecting rays whose energy range from one billion trillion to 10,000 billion trillion volts.

A volt is not a unit of energy. Cosmic rays' energy is expressed in electron volts, not volts. Xiang Bo should know that.

StraitGate  posted on  2015-09-12   22:17:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

As usual, it's a military project dressed up as a purely scientific endeavor. The Chi-coms can not be trusted under any circumstances.

X-15  posted on  2015-09-13   0:42:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

Chi-coms can not be trusted under any circumstances.

Neither can US be trusted as long as its Congress members depend on Israel-supporting Jews for campaign and media support at election time.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2015-09-14   1:02:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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