[과학핫이슈]“Oh God” ‘Ultra-high energy spaceship’ that cannot be explained by modern physics

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A cosmic ray with so much energy that it cannot be explained using the current level of physics has been captured.

Cosmic rays are high-energy particle radiation directed to Earth from space. Events such as supernova explosions are known to be the cause of the creation of these spacecraft.

Spaceships have different types of energy, but this time, it was so powerful that those who observed it had no choice but to look for ‘God’.

The observation time is May 27, 2021. The ‘Telescope Array Joint Research Group’ located in Utah, USA, which observes high-energy cosmic rays, captured ‘ultra-high-energy cosmic rays’ that were later named ‘Amaterasu particles’.

Amaterasu is the sun goddess in Japanese mythology. The reason researchers found God was because of the powerful power of this spacecraft.

The energy of the Amaterasu particle, which researchers recently announced three years after observation, is 244 exaelectron volts (EeV). 1 exa is 10 to the power of 18. Numerically, the number of 0s is enormous, but if you explain it with an example, you can feel its status even more.

Even 1EeV, which is an insignificant level compared to the Amaterasu particle, is said to have an energy that is 1 million times higher than that of particles normally accelerated by particle accelerators.

This also goes beyond what is theoretically possible. In modern physics, it has been assumed that no matter how powerful a cosmic ray may be, it will not exceed 50 EeV.

This is because particles with mass inevitably lose their energy as they fly through space. This is explained by the ‘Graysen-Jatsepin-Kuzmin limit’.

This was also true in the case of powerful cosmic rays such as supernova explosions. It is literally a spaceship that ‘cannot exist’, is ‘shocking’, and ‘can’t help but cry out to God’.

What’s even more surprising is that there is another ultra-high energy spacecraft like this. The energy is even higher.

In 1991, researchers at the University of Utah captured a cosmic ray at 320EeV. The name given is the ‘Oh My God’ particle. Like Amaterasu, researchers had no choice but to find God. Since then, such ultra-high energy cosmic rays other than the Amaterasu particle have not been observed.

What is interesting is that it is difficult to know where and how these two ultra-high energy cosmic rays originated. There were barely any galaxies in the direction they flew. There is no room for an ‘event’ like a supernova explosion to occur.

The origin of the Oh My God particle, which has been studied to some extent 30 years after observation, is still unknown.

All parts of ultra-high energy spacecraft belong to an unknown area that cannot be explained by modern physics.

However, what is clear is that ultra-high energy particles exist and are waiting for us to solve the problem.

Reporter Kim Young-jun kyj85@etnews.com