Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Home Computers Help Discover a Neutron Star

The Einstein(at)Home project has announced its first major discovery: a fast-rotating pulsar called PSR J2007+2722. Einstein(at)Home is one of several scientific research projects using home computers that people make available. The research programs run in the background, using spare computing power that otherwise would go unused....(continue reading article here)

This is some crazy stuff...

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