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Natural Particle Accelerators

Hello Friends  Welcome back. Today I am going to tell you something about natural particle accelerators, how does they work and what are their uses? We all had heard about the particle accelerators or even read about them in our science books, such as Cyclotron and more recently all of us had heard about the LHC through various sources of media, whether it is a print media or through television.  These all particle accelerators are made by man. The question arises, What is a particle accelerator?  A  particle accelerator  is a device that uses  electric fields  to propel  charged   particles  to high speeds and to contain them in well-defined beams. An ordinary  CRT  television set is a simple form of accelerator. Had you ever heard or even think about the particle accelerators existing in nature?  Yes it is true, that nature has also its own particle accelerators and today in this topic...