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    Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that flow into the solar system from distant regions of the galaxy. They are mostly atomic particles like protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei that have been stripped of electrons. Monitoring cosmic rays can provide information about increases and decreases in their intensity, which can have various effects on Earth's environment, technology, and life. While cosmic rays can have little direct effect on other stellar bodies, the Earth is affected by changes in their strength and the study aims to understand their impacts and how to prevent damage.

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    Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that flow into the solar system from distant regions of the galaxy. They are mostly atomic particles like protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei that have been stripped of electrons. Monitoring cosmic rays can provide information about increases and decreases in their intensity, which can have various effects on Earth's environment, technology, and life. While cosmic rays can have little direct effect on other stellar bodies, the Earth is affected by changes in their strength and the study aims to understand their impacts and how to prevent damage.

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    Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that flow into the solar system from distant regions of the galaxy. They are mostly atomic particles like protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei that have been stripped of electrons. Monitoring cosmic rays can provide information about increases and decreases in their intensity, which can have various effects on Earth's environment, technology, and life. While cosmic rays can have little direct effect on other stellar bodies, the Earth is affected by changes in their strength and the study aims to understand their impacts and how to prevent damage.

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    Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that flow into the solar system from distant regions of the galaxy. They are mostly atomic particles like protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei that have been stripped of electrons. Monitoring cosmic rays can provide information about increases and decreases in their intensity, which can have various effects on Earth's environment, technology, and life. While cosmic rays can have little direct effect on other stellar bodies, the Earth is affected by changes in their strength and the study aims to understand their impacts and how to prevent damage.

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    CHAPTER I

    THE PROBLEM IT’S SETTING

    THE RESEARCH PROBLEM


    Where can you find cosmic rays? Is cosmic rays harmful? Usable?
    What are cosmic rays? How can we prevent damage from cosmic rays? How
    cosmic rays are for?

    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY


    Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) are the high-energy particles that flow
    into our solar system from far away in the Galaxy. GCRs are mostly pieces of
    atoms: protons, electrons, and atomic nuclei which have had all of the
    surrounding electrons stripped during their high-speed (almost the speed of
    light) passage through the Galaxy. Cosmic rays provide one of our few direct
    samples of matter from outside the solar system. The magnetic fields of the
    Galaxy, the solar system, and the Earth have scrambled the flight paths of
    these particles so much that we can no longer point back to their sources in
    the Galaxy.

    IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY


    By monitoring cosmic rays we notice increases and decreases of
    cosmic ray strength at ground level. The changes occur for various reasons,
    and depending on the intensity, they have various effects on Earth’s
    environment, our technology, and our lives. The following section describes
    the different effects of cosmic rays. One must remember that cosmic rays
    are just one aspect of the complex relationship between Earth and the
    cosmos.

    SCOPE AND LIMITATION


    Cosmic rays generally have little effect on other stellar bodies. The
    energy absorbed from a cosmic ray may be re-emitted at a lower energy,
    but the effect is usually small. Stellar bodies affect the trajectories of cosmic
    rays primarily through their magnetic fields. However, the overall magnetic
    field of the interstellar medium is generally more important.

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