Muon shower (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

Muon shower

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A bonus of this approach to synchronizing time is that if it is further developed into a spatial positioning system, it avoids a potential security issue that GPS cannot. GPS signals are artificial and can be hacked, but cosmic rays cannot be created artificially so cannot be faked.

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©2022 Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka

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