In common scientific usage, high-energy particles with intrinsic mass are known as cosmic rays, while photons, which are quanta of electromagnetic radiation (and so have no intrinsic mass) are known by their common names, such as gamma rays or X-rays, depending on their photon energy.
Lewiston, NY. Sponsored Topics. Lewiston is a village in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 2,781 at the 2000 census. The village is named after Morgan Lewis, an early 19th-century governor of New York. It is part of the BuffaloâNiagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
They settled across Oneida County at crossroads and hamlets that have become today's twenty-six towns and three cities of the County. Demands for local government and courts, west to Albany, brought the New York State Legislature to form, first, Herkimer County and then Oneida County on March 15, 1798. Later what is now Lewis County, Jefferson and parts of Oswego County were formed from the original County boundaries.