Maya Muon Group...

Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:59 pm » by **Snake Plissken**

I stumbled upon this site today:

http://www.hep.utexas.edu/mayamuon/aboutus/

'The University of Texas at Austin Maya Muon Group is building particle detectors that can be deployed underground to track cosmic-ray muons and reconstruct large-scale tomographic images of the overlying ground and structures. While the concept of cosmic-ray muon tomography has been known for a long time, the technology is rarely put to use. The Maya Muon Group has found that underground muon tomography is a practical tool for investigating large structures.

The first major experiment of the Maya Muon Group will bridge the disciplines of physics and archeology. The particle detectors and related systems are designed specifically to explore ruins of a Maya pyramid in collaboration with colleagues at the UT Mesoamerican Archaeological Laboratory. The Maya Muon Group will travel to La Milpa in northwest Belize to make discoveries about “Structure 1”—a jungle-covered mound covering an unexplored Maya ruin.'

This is a dream come true for me as often, sites that should really be investigated arent because the site in question is untouchable.

With this technology we can finally see whats under all those mysterious mounds and pyramids without even putting a scratch on them!

I cant seem to find out if there have been any results yet, but just imagine how cool it would be to deploy this technology in the antactrctic, finally we might see whats really under all that ice.

Maybe we can finally get the Egyptian government to agree to the area around the great pyramid being scanned!

The website lists some staff contacts, i might drop them an email to see whats going on. :wink:

Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:18 pm » by **Towelie**

This is pretty good, it would be great to try it out in the arctic and loadsa other places, i gotta feeling this is going to produce some great stuff in the future.

Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:21 pm » by **Snake Plissken**

Totally, i also have a feeling that we might never see it again and all the results will be confiscated by shadowy goverment forces!!!

Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:26 pm » by **Towelie**

Hope not this has great potential, like lydar thats a great archaeological tool lydar can look under the trees find abnormalities then use this one to look at the rest, great possibilities.