What’s better than global positioning system? GPS is the best thing since sliced ??bread. At the very least, if you travel a lot or use it as part of your fitness routine, or track star Will he make it better able to locate your position with incredible accuracy and find your way in the cities you’ve never been?

Apparently the answer is yes, in theory. This is called the positioning of pulsars and uses the waves emitted by stars pulsars to determine the positions and could be particularly useful in space – it should ever reach the stage of interstellar travel.

What makes the positioning of pulsars better than the GPS is that it is more accurate. GPS satellites waste of time (it has everything to travel with them very quickly and do the theory of relativity Einstein) and must be corrected by the U.S. Department of Defense are, but pulsars are much slower and takes into account the calculations to the theory of relativity, so that no further handling is necessary to ensure that time is always on target.

The team discover the reality is the position of the pulsar from the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. Unfortunately, the realities of the position of the pulsars are all still on the theory that the team based its conclusions on a simulation experiment. They used software to convert the signals from pulsars, which have “received” by an observatory in Australia to imitate. The theory is, however, the sound, and you can read all about it on arXiv.org.

While the benefits of the positioning of pulsars are numerous, there are also some disadvantages. For example, the waves emitted by pulsars weak and need to transfer large telescopes properly. It is neither cheap nor easy to launch into space.

There are ways around this, of course. All you have to do is to light emitters of radio waves to Mars or the moon or the land on asteroids to get and then some fairly complex calculations are valid in terms of dimensions, in space and time and other technologies such as astronomy, obviously.

There is also a solution with X-ray pulsar waves instead of pulsars, but also a number of hurdles to overcome. Is not that always the case?

In any case, the positioning of pulsars, the potential space easier and safer because it teams, their exact location can be determined without relying on signals from the earth, which have intermittent, inaccurate or may not have available.

According to Angelo Tartaglia, a physicist from the research team, even if the positioning of pulsars is still very much a concept, it is a navigation system, currently in Europe, which could translate described many of the ideas in the document the next ten years.