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  • TERESA GUERRERO

    @teresaguerrerof

    Madrid

Updated Wednesday, 14April2021-22: 31

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Right now you are surrounded by muons that continually pass through you.

If the place you are in is at sea level, 10,000 muons per square meter arrive every minute.

More if it is at a higher altitude.

The muon, a cousin of the electron, is a subatomic elementary particle (and therefore very small, smaller than an atom), well known to physicists (it was discovered in 1936) and widely used in their experiments to understand the structure of the matter.

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