I have been putting off this calculations for some time, but cannot
stall any more.

Trouble is that I am not confident of the numbers given for Cosmic Ray
impacts and Gamma Ray
impacts on Earth.

Also, I note, that if it were easy and obvious that Cosmic Rays impact
Earth at a rate of 2x10^9kg
per minute, then almost every scientist in the world would have
realized that Earth grew from Cosmic
Ray bombardment over 5 to 10 billion years span of time. In other
words, I would not have discovered
this first but that thousands of other scientists would have
discovered this when Cosmic Rays were
discovered.

The surface area of Earth is 4(pi) r^2
The volume of Earth is 4/3 (pi) r^3

The rate of Cosmic Ray impacts on Earth is approx 1,000 per square cm
second so that
makes 60,000 per minute

I am going to assume the same for Gamma Rays

The mass of a proton is 1.6 x 10^-27 kg

So what I would like to see is a number figure of 2 x 10^9 kg of mass
per minute striking Earth
from Cosmic Rays.

Obviously I cannot get that figure from surface area of Earth alone
for that is of a range of about
5 x 10^18 square cm . So the cross section of Earth as that of
*surface area* is not going to
give me a large enough exponent to retrieve 10^9 kilograms per minute.
In fact it gives me about
1 gram of Cosmic Ray mass per minute and I want about 10^9 kilograms
per minute.

So, what I have thought of and done is to consider not the Surface
Area of Earth in the amount of
mass accumulated by Earth for 5 to 10 billion years but the Volume of
the Magnetosphere.

The volume of Earth Magnetosphere catapults the exponent into the
range of well over 10^36 cubic
centimeters so that I can derive a Cosmic Ray Mass Impact for Earth of
a flow range of
2x10^9 kg per minute.

Some may say I am playing trickier here by invoking the Magnetosphere.
But I ask the question
of if a Fly's Eye apparatus were set up in the Magnetosphere itself
instead of the desert of Utah
that would not the influx of Cosmic Rays be very much greater than the
mere 1,000 per sq cm
per sec???? Considering that these are charged particles of protons
and nuclei? And that
Earth is growing faster from the mass impacts at the poles than
elsewhere?

I gave the analogy of the Amazon River which has a flow rate of 12
billion liters of water per
minute. So that to build a planet like Earth all that is needed for 5
billion years is a Amazon
River that discharges 2 billion kilograms of protons upon Earth.

So I think the calculation requires the magnetosphere and thus Earth
is built from Cosmic Rays
over 5 to 10 billion years. Now if anyone bulks at my magnetosphere
entry can look to Jupiter
or other planets as to where Cosmic Rays become part of Jupiter's
overall mass. Does not Jupiter
have more Cosmic Rays coming in from its poles of the Jupiter
Magnetosphere???

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies