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A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball - Boing Boing

By Ellsworth Toohey

A single atomic nucleus hit Utah with the force of a pitched baseball - Boing Boing

The Oh-My-God particle hit Earth in 1991 with a baseball's energy in one nucleus, 40 million times any accelerator.

On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah's Fly's Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground recorded a single subatomic particle arriving from space with an energy of about 3.2×10² elect… [+1249 chars]

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