Promieniowanie kosmiczne – w poszukiwaniu nieoczekiwanego

Abstract

From the very beginning, the history of cosmic rays research has been full of unexpected discoveries that have significantly changed the prevailing view of the world.he very idea that some kind of radiation was coming to us from outer space seemed ridiculous, to say the least, unjustiûed. No one expected such enormous particle energies, no one also “ordered” muons, no one suspected that cosmic rays would come to the earth’s surface in cascades of more than billions of individual particles at the same time. But the strangest thing is that there must nevertheless have been physicists who had such frivolous ideas, and it is thanks to them that we know what we know. And in cosmic ray physics there are still many enigmas waiting to be solved and many discoveries to be made, discoveries that are absolutely unexpected.