The second particle was deflected almost not at all. But what he could tell from the fact that there was a second particle at all, and the fact that it was in this direction, is that in addition to his negative particle, he also, of course, had a positive particle that was within this stream of rays that were coming out.

粒子的强烈信号,有着强烈的对比,第二个粒子几乎，不发生偏转，他能判断这是，第二个粒子的原因是它在这个方向,所以在出射射线中,除了有带负电的粒子外。

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What that might be is unknown, but experiments in space have shown that cosmic rays can have some positive impacts on biological materials.

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