Use smartphones to 'catch' cosmic radiation

Cosmic ray particles constantly hit the Earth's atmosphere, but finding them was difficult; Even the most sophisticated radiation detectors can only cover the ground.

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Scientists at the University of California have just discovered an easier way to detect these extraneous elements, but the most important thing is that they use the camera on your smartphone.

Specifically, the team of CRAYFIS (Cosmic Rays Found in Smartphones) , said that this application will search for high energy particles "collision" on the camera sensor on the device. Take your device even when it starts to go into sleep mode or is charging.

While on a standby / charging mode, the phone does not gather much data related to the device, then its power will be extremely effective; By calculating, every 1,000 phones within a square kilometer will be able to capture every particle of radiation in the atmosphere above them. They may actually be more effective than current radiation detection methods, which tend to overload quickly.

Will need the support of many enough to make this project feasible. The CRAYFIS team is now allowing the application to test this application on Android and iOS, but the participation rates of volunteers in a focused area are likely to remain thin for a long time. To the farther end, a global network of such sensors will require millions of smartphones. That was so exciting, because not hard to envision a future where all people in cities with densities crowded can join the "arrest" of gamma rays by simply plugging your phone they charge and overnight!

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