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Feb 27, 2021Liked by Bob Greenyer

If your hypothesis about Tl-doped scintillators is correct, you should be able to get "the signal" again with a simpler setup compared to the GlowStick. I'm thinking to the Parkhomov experiments with light bulbs, for example. Also, the unknown radiation emanating when hydrogen is absorbed in Ni or Pd should produce "the signal". Instead, analysing the scintillator material with mass spectrometry may be quite challenging, since the percentage of Tl in the crystal is very low, and a very small percentage has potentially been affected by the radiation. Moreover traces of 205Pb could be generated by background neutrinos (so an identical control crystal should be used as control). In any case, this route is very promising!

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Mar 11, 2021Liked by Bob Greenyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VUMjJJBtuA

While Looking for Dark Matter, Scientists Discover Something Way Cooler

This test is looking for the decay of xenon 124

Dark-Matter Detector Measures Half-Life of Xenon-124 that’s Longer than Universe’s Age

The half-life of a process is the time after which half of the radioactive nuclei present in a sample have decayed away. Using the XENON1T dark-matter detector, a 1,300-kg vat of super-pure liquid xenon shielded from cosmic rays in a cryostat submerged in water deep 1.5 km beneath the Gran Sasso mountains of Italy, physicists from the XENON Collaboration were able to observe the decay of xenon-124 atomic nuclei for the first time. The half-life measured for xenon-124 is about one trillion times longer than the age of the Universe. This makes the observed radioactive decay — the so-called double-electron capture of xenon-124 — the rarest process ever seen happening in a detector.

Half-life of xenon 124 is about 18 sextillion years

Get some xenon-124 and use EVOs to decay xenon 124 as a proof of function.

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Feb 27, 2021Liked by Bob Greenyer

Hey Bob - I wanted to mention this one on the terraforming front, https://www.space.com/amp/24422-solar-wind-makes-water-star-dust.html

The hydrogen in the solar wind was found to bind with dust, rocks and metals love to oxidize... I have to laugh at the ancient notion of the firmament being filled with water.

If you’ll allow a tin hat moment, what kind of tech did Moses have tapping rocks and making water; the South Americans have a similar legend about the viracocha preforming the same miracle.

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