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What’s better than global positioning systems? GPS is the best thing since sliced bread, at least if you travel a lot or use it as part of your exercise routine, or to follow the stars. Is there anything better than being able to locate their position with incredible accuracy and find your way around the cities you’ve never been before?

Apparently, the answer is yes, in theory. Pulsar is called positioning, and uses the waves emitted by pulsars out to determine the positions and could be particularly useful in space – once they reach the stage of interstellar travel.

What makes better press than the GPS is that it is more accurate. GPS satellites waste your time (it has everything to do with how fast they travel and the theory of relativity, Einstein) and must be corrected by the Department of Defense, but pulsars are moving much more slowly and calculations take into account the relativity, not the violin is needed to ensure that time is always on site.

The team discovered the pulsar is in fact the position of the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. Unfortunately, the reality of the pulsar position are all based on the theory that the team based its conclusions in a simulation experiment. They used a software that imitate the pulsar signals have been “received” by an observatory in Australia. The theory is, however, the sound and you can read more at arXiv.org.

Although the benefits of pulsar position are numerous, there are several drawbacks. For example, the waves emitted by pulsars are weak and require large telescopes to transmit properly. They are neither cheap nor easy to launch into space.

There are ways around this course. All we have to do is to obtain light emitting radio waves to Mars or the moon, earth or in the asteroid and then apply very complex calculations on the dimensions of space and time and other technologies such as astronomy obvious.

There is also a solution with X-ray pulsar pulsar rather than waves, but it also has a series of obstacles to overcome. Is not that always the case?

In all cases, the pulsar position has the potential to make space travel easier and safer because it allows teams to determine its exact location without having to rely on signals from the Earth, which may be intermittent, inaccurate or nonexistent.

According to Angelo Tartaglia, a physicist at the research team, despite supporting the position is still largely a concept, not a navigation system, currently under construction in Europe, which would implement many of the ideas outlined in the document in the next ten years.