The Cosmic Buffon Needle

It's Friday Afternoon, it's Hamming's time.

Recently, I came across a public cloud chamber detector in Paris and that got me thinking (some of these particles include muons [1-5]), what if they were to draw lines on the top glass of the detector, a camera that would do a little bit of what we did with Cable a while ago, and try to approximate Pi ? what about pushing the design further and visually showing people what the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma entails [6].

The video is strangely hypnotic.

[1] Imaging Damaged Reactors and Volcanoes

[2] Imaging Volcanoes with Atmospheric Muons

[3] Sunday Morning Insight: Muon Tomography as a Moore's Law Enabled Technology

[4] Sunday Morning Insight; Using Muon Tomography to Image Salt Domes ?

[5] Sunday Morning Insights: A follow-up on nanopore compressive sequencers and Muon tomography for locating salt domes.

[6] When Buffon’s needle problem meets the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma

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