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Craighton Miller
10/30/2014
Two groups have released early versions of apps to turn your smart phone into a cosmic ray detector.
Kathryn Jepsen
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Cosmic rays, most of which come speeding through the Milky Way from outside of our solar system, crash into the Earth’s atmosphere at energies high enough to put the Large Hadron Collider to shame. And all it takes to catch such an event is a smart phone.
Cosmic rays, most of which come speeding through the Milky Way from outside of our solar system, crash into the Earth’s atmosphere at energies high enough to put the Large Hadron Collider to shame.
And all it takes to catch such an event is a smart phone.
Two groups are working on apps to turn smart phones into roving particle detectors. One group aims to educate, while the other is on a quest to create the largest cosmic ray detector array in the world.
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