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> More or less, how often is “occasionally”? Cosmic ray fluxes vary depending on the energy of the photon you're talking about, but the number of events is, on
by azalemeth 7y ago
> More or less, how often is “occasionally”?
Cosmic ray fluxes vary depending on the energy of the photon you're talking about, but the number of events is, on a human scale, surprisingly large.
> Can this be used as a source of randomness, like for example time as a Poisson?
Yes. Although from an electronics point of view, lower energy photons are _much_ easier to deal with. That's how random.org started -- https://www.random.org/history/ https://www.random.org/history/