text:   Distributed Cosmic Ray Network",6,"['New paper!\n\n""Feasibility of Correlated Extensive Air Shower Detection with a Distributed Cosmic Ray Network""\n<LINK>\n\nWith Eric Albin.\n\nThis paper asks: is it possible that there are cosmic ray signal SO BIG that they cover the Earth?', 'We found a mechanism, the GZ effect, which would shatter cosmic rays in half before they reach the Earth, creating two impact sites that are correlated in time.', 'Current cosmic ray observatories are awesome, but not big enough to see Earth-sized effects like this.', 'So we wondered if one could see them using a cosmic-ray telescope made out of smartphones, based on this idea:  https://t.co/7LDvu0qNNL', ""Turns out you can! It's a bit tricky, and you need something more common than vanilla GZ effect, but there's a laundry list of exotic theories that would generate such effects."", ""Right now, we're just not looking for it.""]",21,02,831