How a Particle Broke Physics - The OH MY GOD Particle EXPLAINED
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The Amaterasu Particle, one of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever to hit the Earth has been identified. The particle carried 40 million times more energy than the Large Hadron Collider can produce, and left scientists baffled by the data. It's been over 3 decades since the discovery of the record-breaking 'Oh My God' Particle, are we any closer to understanding these anomalies?
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0:00 The ‘Oh My God’ Particle
1:09 The Fly’s Eye Detector
4:21 Ad read
5:30 Cosmic Rays & how we record them
7:56 Leading theory about the Amaterasu Particle
9:10 The Telescope Array & locating the particle source
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as far as i know, Ursa Major is a galactic highway so, pretty sure this is residual matter from the warp drive, klingons usually, they don't care too much about the space ecology
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Kinda scary how close you really are.
That's why I'm lost! I thought that it was Ursa Minor :)
I had a feeling it was the Klingons. Your message basically confirms it.
Of the 27 galactic civilizations, Klingons still dump their waste in interstellar space
Black hole Slingshot. If a particle is caught by the curvature of a black hole but just avoids the horizon, a tremendous amount of acceleration would be imparted on it.
Precisely what I was thinking. Think of a quasar pointed at just the right angle along the tangent to a horizon. And when everything is aligned perfectly, it visits us. Edit: one in a quintillion sniper shot from long, long ago.
You have to be careful with how a slingshot works, you cant for example use just _a_ black hole, youd lose just as much from getting out of the well as you gain falling in. You can use an orbiting black hole which can get up to incredible speeds and impart a lot of energy on things sweeping by* but I dont believe itd be anywhere near enough to produce the insane speed seen in these particles.
*Id recommend reading 'The Halo Drive' by astrophysicist David Kipping who has his own channel on UA-cam 'Cool Worlds' for a very neat break down of how we could use such things in the far future.
Particles accelerate on the way in, but decelerate again on the way out. The net velocity added to the particle can't be more than twice the velocity that the black hole is moving relative to us. (From a distance, a gravitational slingshot looks like a bounce.)
The black hole would need to be large, rotating quickly and with a powerful magnetic field. The particle would need also to be in the upper TeV to lower PeV range and hit at the event horizon boundary at the axis of rotation. Imagine a supercollider but with an acelleration ring that is about the orbital track of Neptune's orbit.
Or imagine : 2 supernova exploding in a way that form a Shaped Charge (a conical explosion) and accelerate everything in his cone
Given several black holes orbiting one another, and trillions of particles entering their realm every second, it is entirely conceivable a particle would enter in such a way that it undergoes multiple gravitational slingshots near the event horizons, giving it near-lightspeed velocity.
That particle to come specifically towards earth is mind blowing. Like what are the chances
Yeah. That was my thought. Black holes have way too much potential to do more than we already suspect they do.
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Should be called the bowling ball dropped at chest height particle.
I like the invisible gorilla throwing balling balls at you from your bsck garden particle better
@@gabriel3437gfcxg that's enough wine for u
"Ludicrous speed" LOL! Nice reference to Space Balls
It has to be Alf!
It's impossible given our knowledge of physics, but that doesn't stop us suggesting possibilities that still don't explain it.
I don’t know much. But my thinking would be that the particle is probably moving around half the speed of light from the direction of the universal expansion, and the earth is moving outwardly caught in the tidal expansion. Thus from our perspective it is moving at nearly the speed of light.
6:48 Funny sunbeds.
Your description of the plasma particles being bounced and accelerating between the shockwave and the surface of an e.g. star sounds a lot like a Laser. Sure, it's not light amplification, but perhaps could be called a Particle Hyper-Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: A Phaser :-) ! Beam me up Scotty!
My farticles travel faster than the speed of smell.
"OMG!" is the standard reaction.
Pffttt.
If you think that's fast, you should see my cat sneeze.
03:42 Hmm that does not looks like a square grid that i'm familiar with. Looks like a stop sign had a baby with the stop hand icon. Good and informative vid.
i really like the bouncing analogy. makes a lot of sense
the bouncing back and fourth shown at around @8:43 reminds me a lot of LASER
If we can't rule out dark matter, we also can't rule out aliens. Could be a "Hello" beacon.
Maybe it was a Boltzman particle that spontaneous appeared out of a freak massive quantum fluctuation?
For those thinking 'nearby'.. 2:40 "One of the local clusters of our galaxy" I ASSUME means "one of the galaxies in our local cluster". The local cluster is bettern known as the local group and is a cluster of galaxies, of which ours is one. It's a cluster containing multiple galaxies. So 'relatively nearby' is still a mind numbing distance measured in the millions of lightyears. Andromeda is the closest galaxy to ours and it's a bit over two and a half million lightyears off.
A quick Google search for 'local cluster' didn't show anything relevant but if I've misunderstood what that sentence actually means, then someone please let me know. It's nonsensical otherwise.
Edit: 3:02 The screenshotted article at this point has the words "supercluster of galaxies" at the top of the screen. So I think I'm fairly safe in my interpretation of that odd sentence.
Thats great, ive created a um blackhole in a garage using IR escape velocity spinning faster than light on microscale, light couldnt catch up with spinning holo stroboscope at 300000 tachymeter.etc Also two geiger tube interferometrically will make cosmicray detector with theremino software, no scintillators used
I have two guesses what this might be.
First: Space wizard casting fireball at a deep dark old one out past Niburu orbit.
Second: Klingon bird of Prey doing doughnuts around Jupiter.
@@Anonymous-cc5pn Say's the person not smart enough to keep silent when the jokes fly so far over their head the joke passes the Van Allen belt while they sit in their joyless cubicle wishing for a moment's mirth.
Warp drive shockwave front?
Great description of the speed of that particle. I mean, I knew already but, GAH!
Truns out to be stray rounds from a galactic war.
It could be a message from an advanced civilization.
Re The OMG particle; I believe it carried about fifty joules of energy, which is the recommended energy of an arrow to kill a deer.
My first guess is that these are particles accelerated in a cumulative manner over time by a supermassive black hole that "escape" via some process not yet known, but perhaps akin to jets from the poles.
Hmm. My antimatter drive must be sputtering. I’ll have to get it tuned next week.
My guess, as a person with no real knowledge on this stuff, is they escape from black hole. Like they are circling inside the accretion disk of the black hole and getting a super gravitational bump before escaping. That's why we can't find the origin. They are from black holes that don't have a visible accretion disk. There are a ton of black holes out there and most of them are invisible.
It´s a warp drive signature. When the warp field is slitly flucuating a relativitic particle may escape.
I'm old enough to remember a pop music group from the '80s, a group with a strange name: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
Change the first word into "Orchestrated" and we have a description of what is ongoing: stellar levels of energy exchanges occurring outside of stars, within the vast darkness of the Universe.
An example, the surface of the Sun is at 6000 °C but it is surrounded by the Sun Corona at 1,000,000 °C. This to say, the energy has ways to travel from a very energetic body to a far region of the Space and manifests there as a stationary volume where the EM fields are ludicrously strong. It is not necessarily a front, but a series of stationary sectors with increasing charge, so that a proton is accelerated sequentially - just like in a railgun. In my hypothesis, the particle is not bouncing like the photon between the two mirrors of a laser, but is proceeding like an electron between the dinodes of a photomultiplier.
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I have to think there's some natural particle accelerator in the sky that we just haven't discovered yet. The first thing I think of is - do we know what happens when two black holes collide? If a proton is whizzing around the accretion disk, I know we're taught that nothing can escape a black hole, but another black hole probably has enough pull to strip mass away and the interaction of the gravitational fields is likely to let some rogue extemely-high-velocity particles escape
Already saw a video on this a few days ago. Interesting topic though
ok stupid question time.. if E=mc2 and this is super high energy .. could this help explain missing mass in the universe? or dark energy ?
There's been extra galactic gamma ray sources reported recently. I've detected Iron cosmic ray decay in my basement particle detector and fogging the entire detector. Is it merely coincidence or cause/effect, but not in that order effect preceding cause, depending on relativity in a Quantum universe? Higgs transient events? Great video.
Are we able to calculate the rate of slow down imposed on the HMG particles by the CMBR?
There are some serious misunderstandings with regard to physics. Until we get them straight the science community will always dumbfounded by observations
One important misunderstanding is the nature of em radiation. It is NOT a velocity in vacuum; it IS a rate of induction.
Consider the implications of this difference.
I like and concur with your dark sarcasm :-)
Are there particle detectors arrays in space? And it is possible to create a particle collider in space that uses natural cosmic rays as a source of collisions with particles generated by the collider?
The explanation about the particle bouncing sounds analogous to a laser, where the pressure wave is the half silvered mirror. I wonder is a collapsing mag field could act like a shaped charge………. Where the repulsive nature of the protons acts to concentrate the energy and therefore speed, like the copper jet in an anti tank round?
Some drugged guy got too high and had a spark in his mind and POW ! OMG particle...
what would be the theoretical change if the super high energy particles were made of something other than protons -- e.g. boron atoms?
Did "The Three Body Problem" answer the question of where the particles came from? 😮
It is 100% a warp drive energy signature!
Underrated
My guess: The particles are exhaust from an alien ion engine.👽
Good try!
May be an ion of destroying planet in other galaxy 😂
They discovered that the particals don't come from arson? That's a relief, I'm glad the galaxy isn't filled with pyromaniacs.
These happen when particles get stuck on the warp bubble of alien craft.
Dark matter supernova?
Me: making no notable contribution
Some dude: gets in a hot air balloon during a solar eclipse with his ion radiation detector and proves cosmic rays exist.
To be fair, I'm guessing you don't own an ion radiation detector.
My idea is a black hohle you can go very close to an event horizon to absurd speed but then it got that extra kick and it flung out either that or alien morse code D
Very likely as well. The problem is, that these particles are coming from a part of space that kinda has nothing there (just a few, small galaxies). Huge blackholes generally tend to have stuff around them. But again, it is not that unlikely to have some weird rogue blackhole that has been kicked from its galaxy by some interaction with another powerful gravitational entity (another blackhole, neutron star, etc.).
Did they actually calculate that they have a proton not a photon and that they shouldn't blindly follow straight to the incoming angle? I mean a photon just follow the curved space. Protons havee mass its more like a bowling ball close to the speed of light.
@@Fiercesoulking Okay, so we know for sure that this wasn't a photon. Here's the reason: Protons can break into multiple particles. Photons can't. When this particle struck our atmosphere, it spluttered like a tomato thrown at a windshield, leading to the formation of other particles. This is called a "particle shower". We detected this shower. Photons don't do this.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 This isn't what I meant . I know it is a proton . What I meant is when you look at the angle where a photon comes even through gravitational lensing you looking at the source because it works both ways. The effect of mass on a proton should be different /stronger because it has also mass. So when you put up your telescope straight at the angle where it came from you won't see the source. So was this taken into ?
@@Fiercesoulking Ahh gotcha.
1) All particles that have momentum (be it massless particles like photons or massful particles like protons) are affected equally by gravity. Consider the feather/brick experiment, where both experience the same acceleration due to gravity. So no, protons and photons wouldn't experience gravity differently.
2) Could the trajectories of these cosmic rays have been affected by gravity? Sure. But remember that gravity is tremendously weak. Therefore, for it to make such large changes in trajectory, the particles would need to have originated from far far away. The GZK limit tells us that this is not possible. If the GZK limit is correct, then we know that these particles have originated relatively close enough to not be affected by gravity so much.
Therefore, for you to be correct, the GZK limit would have to be wrong.
At 5:40 I think you meant 299,792,305 m/s not km/s.
Nobody ever answer my hypothesis of the friction of matter and space. Anyway, I believe the only energy abundant could be the Black Hole Jet Stream, but maybe also Super/Hypernova explosions, powerful enough pulsars and Dwarf Stars poles, besides the Sun of course; but what about Dark Energy? Maybe laced with it matter can be laced with Dark Matter and form a different particle; since apparently particles are expression of Energy that bend Space, so I don't see why not bend the Light Speed Limit
They are hitchhiking on the waves of the photons, gaining almost similar speeds before they separate..
This one should be called the OMFG particle. 😁
If a spacecraft was travelling towards us at near light speed, the light waves of the ship would be compressed to a higher frequency light on the leading edge. It means it couod be giving off gamma rays even though lower frequency light as radio waves would be shifted upward to become visible light. (Stealth could be negative or 180 degree shifted radio waves to cancel out the radio waves so the visible light of the ship is eliminated).
🤦♀️ UNBELIEVABLE 🤦♀️
They still blame all of their failures on “dark 👻 ghost). Pathetic 😒
What if the particles are in fact coming from AGNs but are being accelerated through gravity assists as they travel around other galactic centers/massive stars before hitting us?
A good hypothesis.
This happened so you could explain gravity and how it starts, in a region of space with no gravity on weak gravitational force, ...
When particles interact with each other they behave differently in space compared to earth. ,at some point so many particles are bunched up together, in out atmosphere or in space ie gas cloud.
cosmic Ray's interact , just like you have shown in this video, cosmos Ray's or other energetic particals can only influence the particles on the outside of a mass of particles cloud, unless its energy is unknown (higher than), unable to penetrate the inner mass from bumping into so many other particles and changing direction, a unorganised process that becomes organised finding order with interaction.
If a chain reaction has already started, a calculation of mechanisms that have their own purpose find order to create a structured system of movement dictated by all forces associated with a partical.
They start moving in order pushing the particals not associated with this order , out until they also find a place where their charge fit/ finds balance.
(Comics rays divide oxygen into atomic oxygen, on the edge of our space, as a example)
Since earth already has gravity, I guess all these particles in our atmosphere find their position to form elements we can understand, or we have discovered a process that was here long before us, maybe it has always been that way...
Maybe we are just partical bunched up in a form, trying to discover ourselves....
Sorry if I didnt explain well, but one day soon, I well spend a few days explaining this, even though its known already, but still hasn't been associated with the process surrounding gravity....
I'm watching this video while sitting on the toilet waiting on a couple of my own OMG particles 💩💩💩🤣🤣🤣
If mass can distort/stretch/pull on the space around it, would an object with a large amount of energy also be able to influence the space around it? Would such influence aid in explaining these particles?
I mean doesn't it already happen in stars and black holes? They have a lot of energy. And they affect space?
Ooooor, and hear me out, aliens.
It's just aliens ducking with us and shooting particles at earth for a laugh
maybe its stuff that got super compressed then ejected out the other end of a black hole
@@Anonymous-cc5pn yeah bro obviously it is, in fact I actually invented black holes.
Aliens! It has to be an alien attack
I like to think that they are exhausted particles from an alien vessel.
Perhaps it is related to the gravity drives that aliens are using to zip around the galaxy.
*UHECR* . . . I pronounce that as You-Cur, same way as the card game Euchre.
"goddamn" particle.
Something is probing us 😮
Maybe the source of OMG particles is matter-antimatter annihilation?
Naah. Matter anti-matter annihilation leads to light, ie., photons. This particle has mass, and is not a photon.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 What if there is slightly more regular matter that encounters antimatter? Perhaps there are clouds of hydrogen and anti-hydrogen out there? Some of it gets annihilated, but some of it doesn't and is ejected at extremely near the speed of light. It seems unlikely that identical masses of matter and antimatter randomly encounter and completely annihilate each other.
@@robertjennings7282 Possible, but an incomplete explanation. Why are there random clouds of anti-hydrogen in that particular area? Why haven't they annihilated there? Can we experimentally prove this hypothesis?
I'm not a physicist. At the end of the video Dr. Miles asked viewers to spitball explanations for the OMG particle and that's what I did. Experimentally proving the hypothesis might release the energy of a Tsar Bomba to a Chicxulub impactor. @@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992
What would happen to a person if struck by a particle such as this?
Im sure this has been considered and refuted, but you didnt bring it up in the video. Since we arent detecting the particle itself, but rather its damage (shower of particles), perhaps these arent individual particles. But a number of particles travelling together. For the 240 EeV particle, whats to stop it from being 10 * 24 EeV particles that are microns apart. Arriving at almost the exact same moment. Causing the shower.
Its like looking at the damage caused by 10,000 * 1 ton bombs vs a single 10 kiloton nuclear bomb (ignoring radiation), it might be hard to deduce which of those two scenarios caused the damage. Or, i guess im saying, they could be confused for one another. (Again, ignoring radiation.)
Also, again. Im sure there is a reason this has been disproven. But you didnt say why, so i ask it.
I think we need much bigger detectors to get more data. I suggest adding these detectors to top of each starlight satellite which planned to cover all of the world, so we can have a world size detector (low resolution but still)
The particles are stray pew pew fire from a distant spaceship fight xD
Pew pew pew
Oh no I missed
if history channel has taught me anything.. it’s that when in doubt…
What percentage of the speed of light was it traveling?
Aliens, Its definitely aliens. Id wager Lizard people trying to bait us into an intergalactic war by firing annoying ping-pong particles at us. Akin to when you were young and someone would copy everything you said until you eventually snapped.
It's never aliens. 🤣 (Until it is.)
50exa-elevtronvolt is about 8J. If that energy would be delivered by an ion shower into 8 kgs of tissue that would mean an exposure of 1 Gy for that 8kgs of tissue. A whole body dose of 10 times that could be fatal, so it would be quite unhealthy to run into the OMG particle.
I also wondered if you could feel a push if such a particle would hit you. For particles close to the lightspeed we can approximate pc=E, so p=E/c, a 50 EeV particle administers a momentum of 2.7•10^-8 Ns, which would (by itself) be absolutely unnoticeable. This is where the gorila-throwing- bowling-balls analogy goes wrong.
So, a 300 EeV particle would have about 48J of energy? A bit over a quarter the energy of a 40 grain .22 calibre rifle round, but concentrated in an area the size of a proton.
Hmmm. That might hurt.
Tachion?
2:10 NEINN
When two black holes collide they cause these particles.
If some particles are moving at the speed of light or faster, they may not be able to be detected ....I am musing....So how many of these things are really being slung out ??
I'm very excited about this. The particles are accelerated incredibly like this somehow. Didn't require a supermassive explosion or something.
Imagine we figure out how its done. We can use those super energetic particles as fuel for space ships that can travel between stars.
We can solve earth energy problem.
We can try to reach to the next kardashev civilization scale.
This can turn out to be huge.
"We can use those super energetic particles as fuel for space ships that can travel between stars."
In theory, yes. However, it is very likely that this is some phenomenon associated with huge celestial bodies. But sure, there is a possibility that we could find some exotic mechanism that we could use to build better particle accelerators/ better electric thrusters.
"We can solve earth energy problem. "
No we can't. We would still need to get and store the energy from somewhere. There isn't any evidence that these particles are just spontaneously creating energy from thin air.
"We can try to reach to the next kardashev civilization scale."
No energy, no advancing on the Kardashev scale.
"This can turn out to be huge."
I agree to a certain degree. In my opinion, it could be huge if we never manage to find an answer to this using 2023 physics. This would mean some new physics, which is always huge. This could in theory by dark matter particle annihilation, which could provide us a lot of insight into its behavior.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 You don't need to act like smart ass to me. Of course I know you will need to solve other problems like storing the energy.
Thanks for the comment anyways.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 I don't know much about particle physics, but don't they detect *only* the particles hit by the original particle and the 3rd, 4th, etc particles? Couldn't a few cosmic rays hitting at the same time and direction make it look like one super energetic cosmic ray?
@@FLPhotoCatcher "don't they detect only the particles hit by the original particle and the 3rd, 4th, etc particles?"
Kinda, yeah. It's called a "particle shower".
"Couldn't a few cosmic rays hitting at the same time and direction make it look like one super energetic cosmic ray?"
Like... yeah, this isn't impossible. However, the odds of this are just so so so so so so so so so so so so so low, that it can very easily be ruled out. Plus remember, even if these are say 2 particles crashing into the atmosphere at the same time/location, their individual energies would still be very very high. Hence, if you want to solve the extremely high energy problem, you would require hundreds of these particles to come from different angles and crash at the same location and time, close enough that they pass in the error range of our detectors. Not impossible, but so improbable, that this being an alien ship with a Katy Perry concert going on is much more probable.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 I always thought that Katy Perry was an alien.
Well I'll just throw this out there: Maybe the OMG's are some kind of exotic photon that has a little tiny bit of mass. We could call them "heavy photons". How cool would that be if such photons turned out to be real.
if it is rushing at 99,999999998% of the speed of light, shouldn't it have almost infinite mass, too, regardless of how little its initial mass was?
Maybe so, and that would explain why it creates some energy, but not very much, despite it's insane speed. 1 kg when c=99.9999998% the speed of light would produce something like ~7.6GT (or 7,600MT) or 10^32 joules (31798399999999640000) joules of energy. Enough to destroy the Earth. But something with the mass of one electron (there are approximately 10^31 electrons in 1 kg) travelling at that speed would create detectable energy, but probably wouldn't do much. Like was said, it would be like the force of a bowling ball being bounced into the Earth like a basketball.
@@stephenmedley5844 Normally yes I would think so but my so called theoretical photon would be, I guess, a hybrid of a photon and a particle or some other kind of exotic thing. The idea just popped into my head so IDK.
IIRC, the Proca equation describes a particle that would correspond to a massive photon. So maybe so. Interesting.@@sinebar
thats retarded, how tf would a photon have mass.
Its litterally just a slight "wiggle" in the electromagnetic field. You just shake an electron a bit and the oscillation combined with the fact it takes awhile for the field to "update", and you get a "photon".
“Our” universe, ie, the universe we can perceive with all our tools, is limited to the speed of light. Light curves. That means sunlight EVENTUALLY returns to earth.
You know that “long channel” going out from earth opposite the sun? The universe we perceive is a black hole.
And no cop tried to ticket this one?
Its type VI being
Spherical mirrors? Really? Are you sure you don't mean hemispheres or convex or similar? I'm not familiar with the Fly's Eye array at all, but a spherical mirror seems like a really unusual element in any kind of detection array. Can you recommend any content here that explores how this array works and why it needs shiny reflective balls?
My bad , you can call me dadson not god, my Saturday night love particle likely bounced off the moon. I'll have to watch out for that secondary line of evidence lol
Is it possible these high energy particles are caused by space trolls throwing rocks at us?
Any chance these are an exotic form of muon?
Can an oh my god particle be so energetic that it keeps up with light, plank length for plank length, throughout the entire observable universe? So like, if an ohmygod particle moves 1^1000 plank lengths in 500 billion years, and the photon moves 1^1000+1 plank lengths in 500 billion years, won't it only begin to lose the race after 500 billion years have passed? So any measurement done prior to that will show both particles moving equal distances?
And does that mean "infinite energy" can be quantified if the timespan or distance traveled is known? Since like, adding more energy to that ohmygod particle won't change the distance traveled if measured less than 500 billion years?
Why is everyone always shocked when a previously held belief gets shattered by new developments.
It's historical one might say😛
alien probes
They originate from a misfire of an alien space ship engine
I wonder if it's almost like a sneeze - as if the particle were ejected via thermal disruption and the acceleration is massive but we're seeing it speed up, however it decelerates once it reaches the theoretical speed limit of our universe.
It's a Sophon... No?
So I’m way too stupid to be a particle physicist so I have some questions about Ultra-high energy cosmic rays
1.) The rays are accelerated to very high speeds but when they hit our atmosphere; they are virtually harmless to humans?
2.) I’m a huge fan of futurism so I remember watching an Isaac Arthur video where he speculated on the creation of a photon with a joule of energy to itself. That’s NOT what’s happening with the Armasetu and OMG particle right? The particles of the ray each contain less than a joule of energy?
Thanks!
1) Yes. Well... kinda... So why are cosmic rays dangerous? Cuz they're ionizing. They have a lot of momentum, that they can use to alter our DNA, which can lead to more cell mutations, and hence an increased risk of cancer. Thankfully though, ionizing radiation is blocked quite easily by our atmosphere. Its energy is absorbed by our atmosphere, thus reducing its ionizing potential to practically nothing. However, if you go to very high altitudes (like airplanes), then you receive bigger doses of cosmic radiation, cuz there's not much atmosphere to shield you from it.
2) "creation of a photon with a joule of energy to itself".
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Joules are just a unit of energy. Sooo like... yeah? Energy is definitely being used to accelerate this particle to such high speeds. But what is giving rise to this energy? That's what the mystery is all about.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 I was thinking of a single photon with a joule of energy. That single photon. Obviously that’s ridiculous since that photon would be the most powerful photon of all time?
@@Italianjedi7 Sure, a single photon could have that energy. Are you asking if Amaterasu could be a high energy photon? The answer to that is no. Light interactions with the atmosphere are much different than proton/alpha particle interactions. This is most definitely a massful particle.
@@xxxplayerblyatxxx8992 Excellent. Thank you!
@@Italianjedi7Np :)
Hahahahaha... why not just a malfunction of detectors