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pfdietz
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What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting mo...
Cosmic rays are mostly protons, not electrons or positrons. You're mixing up to separate theories in the article.
nirse
3 months ago
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Well, the primary particles that hit the atmosphere are mostly protons. They cause avalanche of secondaires that are varied but mostly muons,
sidewndr46
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As others have mentioned you are correct. But Earth's atmosphere has plenty of all forms of matter. A proton can interact with mostly anything and accelerate it. So you can find high energy everything in low earth orbit.
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