Anomalies in the flux of cosmic ray muons

I just clicked the like posted above and got the sorry notice the page cannot be downloaded. Is the address right? The cosmic ray is a matter worthy of new research.

One must use care with URLs because this MB software doesn't know where the URL ends. It will include any "period" placed at the end because "period" is a legitimate URL character. This is the problem above. Click on the URL, get the "sorry" message, then remove the period at the end of the URL and try again. -|Tom|-

Terminating the period worked well. The muon anomoly was resolved (I guess) from what I think I read at the link. The thing I don't under-stand is how they can be moving so fast? Or how come cosmic rays move so fast and interact with the atmosphere?

They try to make it appear that the problem is both solved and trivial, and use it to tutor a high school teacher in special relativity. Howwever, what must be explained is not the use of special relativity to explain how muons can reach the earth (a simple problem in undergraduate physics), but why the flux at the top of the atmosphere is not what we would expect given the basic theoretical assumption that: a large nuumber of muons reach our upper atmosphere so that the possibility of some reaching the earth, occurs because of the natural laws of probability.

The information suggests that the NASA projects did not find a large distribution of muons at the top of the atmosphere. Thus, the basic assumption is incorrect and we must now explain the arrivial of muons at sea level without this assumption.

Then there are more muons at the surface than there should be if one were working from currently favored theory-right? It seems that some kind of interaction of cosmic rays and the atmosphere could be the cause of this. The cosmic rays should be accounted for at the top and bottom of the atmosphere-is this done?

You are correct and that is precisely the issue. If the current theory does not explain such a "simple" problem, then something fundamental may be wrong with our understanding of cosmic rays (their orgin etc) and/or the basic theoretical framework used to analyze the problem.