What does a sensational scientific discovery about asolarstorm in the Earth's magnetic fieldhave to do with old, recycled steel pipes which lay buried for more than a decade under a now-defunct gold mine in India?
Almost everything.
More than 3,700 such pipes are actually at the heart of a most significant scientific finding.
A team of Indian and Japanese scientists recently published aninternationally-fetedpaperwhich recorded the events that unfolded after a breach in the Earth's magnetic shield.
Using the GRAPES-3 muon (a sub-atomic particle) telescope - the world's largest of its kind - at the Cosmic Ray Laboratory in Ooty, a hill station in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, the scientistsrecorded a two-hour burst of galactic cosmic rays that invaded the atmosphere on 22 June 2015.
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