Science Predicts and Finds a new way to make X-Rays

[LarianLeQuella]

New Type of Cosmic Ray Discovered After 100 Years

(Don't blame me for the innacurate article title, I prefer the one I used for the thread.)

ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2012) — Using the European X-ray astronomy satellite XMM-Newton(1), researchers from CNRS(2) and CEA (3) have discovered a new source of cosmic rays. In the vicinity of the remarkable Arches cluster, near the center of the Milky Way, these particles are accelerated in the shock wave generated by tens of thousands of young stars moving at a speed of around 700,000 km/h. These cosmic rays produce a characteristic X-ray emission by interacting with the atoms in the surrounding gas. Their origin differs from that of the cosmic rays discovered exactly a hundred years ago by Victor Hess, which originate in the explosions of supernovae.

Nothing particularly earth shattering about this announcement or discovery, but in the article, they said (emphasis mine):

The authors of the article began by studying the X-ray emission that should theoretically be generated by low-energy cosmic rays in the interstellar medium.

You see, someone was able to predict this because of many other things we know about the universe around us. And people still cling to some bronze age fables as prophetic, when never in history has it shown even the remotest actual predictive abaility... Yeah, sorry, got bit preachy there.

 

[CapelDodger]

I imagine the Plasma Universe crowd are working out how it fits their model and how they would have predicted it if asked. What the "Einstein was wrong" crowd will make of it is anybody's guess. What they make of anything is pretty much guesswork anyway.

 

[pakeha]

Thanks for the news, LLQ!
I've put it on my FB page.

 

[Acleron]

New Type of Cosmic Ray Discovered After 100 Years

(Don't blame me for the innacurate article title, I prefer the one I used for the thread.)


Nothing particularly earth shattering about this announcement or discovery, but in the article, they said (emphasis mine):


You see, someone was able to predict this because of many other things we know about the universe around us. And people still cling to some bronze age fables as prophetic, when never in history has it shown even the remotest actual predictive abaility... Yeah, sorry, got bit preachy there.

Enthusiasm is good, even better when you have the evidence