Daniel Whiteson

Can you tell me about how we can turn every cell phone on Earth into a cosmic ray detector?

Yeah.

There's this great mystery in cosmic ray physics.

Cosmic rays is a fancy name for just like particles coming at the Earth.

You think of space as empty, but it's actually filled with particles, right?

Very, very low density compared to like our atmosphere, but high-speed particles whizzing around.

The sun makes particles.

That's where the government gets their zero-point energy.

Of course, everyone does that.

The sun is making all sorts of particles, black holes emit particles, all sorts of stuff out there in space.

And the amazing thing is that there are particles out there with such crazy high energy that nobody can explain it.

How high?

So the Large Hadron Collider can make collisions up to 10 to the 12 electron volts.

10 to the 12.

10 to the 12 electron volts.

So that's like 10 to the 12.

So that's like a trillion times the mass of a proton.

I'm trying to do it too.

I have to let the physicist, he'll be faster.

So that's like a thousand times the mass of a proton.