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We're spending enormous amounts of money for larger and larger accelerators, new observatories such as the gamma ray observatory, etc.
I'm a wholehearted supporter of this kind of research, but since energetic radiation is everywhere, can't we hand out interested parties a metal plate with a sensor
and a way to upload the data? (and how is there not a physics category?)
Permaglow
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Permaglow
Trigger Idea [theircompetitor, Oct 04 2004]
Surf for gravity waves
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6998163/
[theircompetitor, Feb 22 2005]
Roland Maze
http://www.u.lodz.pl/~wibig/maze/ang0.htm
Distributed cosmic ray observatory. See "Other Similar Projects" section too. [wiml, Sep 14 2006]
No danger to Earth from tiny black holes
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14923900/
[theircompetitor, Sep 21 2006]
And here we are
http://www.popsci.c...ide-your-smartphone
[theircompetitor, Oct 07 2011]
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This doesn't make a lick of sense to me, even after reading the "Permaglow" link below. |
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I think [tc] is after a way to make "big physics" modular and distributed, along the lines of a distributed array radiotelescope. |
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Not necessarily a bad or impossible thing, just highly unlikely that the appropriate sensors and timing structure could be connected over the internet. |
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Sort of a nano-baked solution in search of a problem. |
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Ah. This works for observatories, then, but not for accelerators - I guess the first sentence threw me off. Thanks for the explanation! |
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Clearly this is not a distributed accelerator, but distributed detectors. As linked article points out, energetic collisions occur all them time. |
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Apparently there's now app for that (evaluating
collision data). God particle, if you are out there, I
need a beer |
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Not just the highly energetic particles -- also the
weakly interacting ones (neutrinos), no? |
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