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Muons are elementary particles that have a lifetime of 2 millionths of a second. Classically we...

Muons are elementary particles that have a lifetime of 2 millionths of a second. Classically we should not be able to detect them because they have a very quick decay times, however, there are detectors which detect a great number of them. How is this possible?

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