Conclusion and All References

• The Thorium and Granite Experiments concluded that the LBNL Cosmic Ray Detector can and will detect radioactivity, misinterpreting it as cosmic particles and mistakenly increasing the count rate.
• The Angle Experiment concluded that of the cosmic particles that reach the surface of the earth, the majority of them tend to travel along vectors closer to a perpendicular orientation relative to the ground than at other angles.
• The trial of Cosmic Particle Detection throughout a Full Battery Life showed how even though there may be fluctuations in the rate of cosmic particle detection at a given spot with constant conditions in a given period of time, the pattern will even out to obey normal statistical distribution over time.
• The Sunlight Experiment showed that like radioactivity, the LBNL Cosmic Ray Detector can also misinterpret light as cosmic particles. Light causes inaccurate increases in count rate, which is why it is crucial to protect the detector from light sources while conducting experiments.
• The Water Experiment concluded that water, in low volumes, has no statistical effect on the rate at which cosmic particles are detected as a relatively thin layer of water can do very little to obstruct the paths of cosmic particles.
• The Elevation Experiment showed that cosmic particles are found in higher abundances at higher altitudes.
• The experiments at Orinda Theatre Square, in which the cosmic particle flux of a building was measured, showed that cosmic particles can be absorbed by large structures. It also showed that the rate at which cosmic particles were absorbed increased as the detector was brought further underground and more building matter was brought into the detector's field of cosmic particle detection. Likewise, the rate at which cosmic particles were absorbed decreased as the detector was brought closer to the top of the building and building matter was removed from the detector's field of detection.

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