COSMIC RADIATION. “One prerequisite is that two types of incoming radiation must have been largely blocked to allow profusely varied life forms to exist on Earth’s surface. One of the lethal radiation types consists of cosmic rays (high-energy ionized particles from the Sun and from outside the Solar System) which are now mostly blocked from the surface by Earth’s internally generated strong dipolar magnetic field.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825219302636?via=ihub
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022