Posted: Mar 30, 2017 2:07 am
PleaseReadThis wrote:Here is a chart of the detectable flux of cosmic rays at various energies from the "cosmic ray" wiki page:
By Sven Lafebre - own work, after Swordy.[1], CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1555202
Looks like there are all sorts of particles with more than 155 GeV. While this might not amount to enough to account for the mass needed, it shows qualitatively that the Earth is not a closed system and maybe we just haven't found all the contributors.
Less than 1 in a thousand. Also that is a chart of known cosmic ray reactions so it depicts detected reactions so ones that don't produce new unpredicted particles. That is either the majority of one part of the chart is missing and somehow it creates a smooth curve or a tiny or non existent amount are creating exotic non predicted particles. Not a big gap to hide in especially given the total flux is miniscule compared to the mass we are talking about.