General Knowledge - General Science - Discussion

Cosmic rays are high energy charged particles, originating in outer space, that travel at nearly the speed of light and strike the Earth from all directions. Most cosmic rays are the nuclei of atoms, ranging from the lightest to the heaviest elements in the periodic table.

Is the cosmic ray a part of the three types of radiation?

What is cosmic ray? Please explain.

Is cosmic rays are related with meteorites?

Mesons is a elementary particle whose mass lie in b/w the electron and proton. So mesons are found in Cosmic rays.

Please tell me briefly explain in mesons?

In particle physics, mesons are hadronic subatomic particles composed of one quark and one antiquark, bound together by the strong interaction. Because mesons are composed of sub-particles, they have a physical size, with a radius roughly one femtometre, which is about 2/3 the size of a proton or neutron. All mesons are unstable, with the longest-lived lasting for only a few hundredths of a microsecond. Charged mesons decay (sometimes through intermediate particles) to form electrons and neutrinos. Uncharged mesons may decay to photons.

What are cosmic rays please explain me?

Cosmic rays are immensely high-energy radiation, mainly originating outside the Solar System. They may produce showers of secondary particles that penetrate and impact the Earth's atmosphere and sometimes even reach the surface.

Sir please tell me about of cosmic rays?