{"id":200402,"date":"2024-11-29T03:34:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/researchers-find-a-possible-solution-to-the-cosmic-ray-muon-puzzle"},"modified":"2024-11-29T03:34:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:34:21","slug":"researchers-find-a-possible-solution-to-the-cosmic-ray-muon-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/researchers-find-a-possible-solution-to-the-cosmic-ray-muon-puzzle","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find a possible solution to the cosmic ray muon puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-a-possible-solution-to-the-cosmic-ray-muon-puzzle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays\u2014they produce too many muons at the Earth\u2019s surface. Cascades of muons are byproducts of high-energy cosmic rays as they collide with nuclei in the upper atmosphere, and scientists see more muons at Earth\u2019s surface than standard physics models predict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays\u2014they produce too many muons at the Earth\u2019s surface. Cascades of muons are byproducts of high-energy cosmic rays as they collide with nuclei in the upper atmosphere, and scientists see more muons at Earth\u2019s surface than standard physics models predict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}