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Imagine you want to look inside a huge mountain, an ancient pyramid, a volcano, or a thick concrete structure. You cannot simply cut it open to see what is inside. Traditional X-rays also have serious limits when the object becomes extremely large or dense. This is where muon tomography offers an interesting solution. Muon tomography uses naturally occurring particles called muons to study the inside of large and solid objects. In simple terms, scientists can use muons somewhat like an X-ray beam to understand what lies beneath a surface without physically breaking the structure. The idea sounds like something from…

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