Young People Always Want to Make a Big Splash! Taking Experiments to the Skies! A Feat That Shocked Huaxia!

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was 1926.

While the West was still celebrating the arrival of the New Year with all manner of events, Huaxia's New Year would not come until February.

The millions of Chinese in Nanyang still maintained the traditional custom of celebrating the Spring Festival rather than the foreigners' New Year.

Thus, Kuching was fairly peaceful everywhere except the areas where the colonists lived, where gatherings were being held.

However, explosive news had emerged from the Physics Research Institute.

"What?"

"You want to go up into the sky?"

"Are you kidding?"

Deng Huaining shot to his feet with a rustle, his face full of disbelief.

Were young people these days really willing to go this far for scientific research?

Zhao Zhongyao scratched his head awkwardly and said with a smile, "Professor Deng, I have a reason I must go up there."

"I've more or less finished researching ground-level radiation. Now I need to study high-altitude radiation."

"To see whether there are any differences between them."

"Besides, people were already studying Cosmic Rays at high altitudes more than a decade ago."

Then, in order to persuade his mentor, Zhao Zhongyao began explaining some relevant examples.

In actual history, as early as 1903, Rutherford had discovered a strange phenomenon.

When conducting radioactivity experiments on the ground, even after all radioactive sources were removed, a faint ionization phenomenon would still appear inside the ionization chamber.

In physics, ionization referred to the process by which uncharged particles became charged particles under the effects of high voltage or high-energy radiation.

Clearly, this indicated that an unknown form of high-energy radiation still existed in space.

Its penetrating power was extremely strong. Even if the ionization chamber was covered with lead blocks, it could not be blocked.

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