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A NEW hypothesis of the origin of cosmic rays and reports on its experimental testing in India and elsewhere are published in the Physical Review (61, 397 and 407 ; 1942) by R. A. Millikan, H. V. Neher and W. H. Pickering. While retaining the fundamental basis of nuclear physics theories and transformations of rest mass into other forms of energy, former suggestions are reversed. The sun's heat is assumed to correspond with atom building going on in its interior, whereas cosmic rays are due to the complete annihilation process going on in interstellar space. The transformation of the rest mass of the atoms into cosmic-ray energy is postulated as complete instead of partial.
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ORIGIN OF COSMIC RAYS. Nature 150, 244 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150244a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150244a0