COSMIC RAYS
A MYSTERY OF SCIENCE UNIVERSE INTER-PENETRATED By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyrtyfc LOXDON, Saturday. At the annual meeting at Leeds of th British Association for the Advance ment of Science Professor Robert a. Millikan, an American physicist of tit Pasadena Institute of Technology, fe. scribed his observations of tlie cosmic rays which are one of the mysteries of science. These he says apparently inter-penetrate the whole universt According to one theory they from the disintegration of atoms ii space.
Dr. Milliken related his experiment' with balloons floating 10 miles above the earth. It was discovered that th rate of discharge of the rays continuously increased. Further experimentin the Andes showed that the rays wer ; three times as strong at a mounte: top as at the sea level. It had also betdiscovered that the *rays penetrate: 120 ft. into water, which was equivaler to lift, into lead, before they were absorbed. The speaker said the rays were producing 1,500 ions per cubic- centimes throughout human bodies, out wheththey affected our health and happines was not yt known.—Sun. ■■■
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 8
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