a) Myons are unstable particles that form at high velocity due to cosmic radiation in them...

a) Myons are unstable particles that form at high velocity due to cosmic radiation in them
top layers of Earth's atmosphere. Explain why we can observe these myons in
laboratories on the Earth's surface, despite the longevity of a myon that is at rest is
short, and the distance between where the myon forms and where it is observed (and decays)
is very big.

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