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EXPERIMENTS seem to show that the cosmic rays are very fast particles, coming from world space ; but at present there is no acceptable theory of the phenomena giving rise to them. Neither Millikan's nor Jeans's hypotheses of nuclear integration or annihilation processes, nor Regener's1 or Swann's2 theories, seem to be in accordance with the latest experimental results.
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ALFVÉN, H. Origin of Cosmic Radiation. Nature 131, 619–620 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131619b0
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