"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...
Must be those liberals, taxing the half-life on everything nowadays.
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Tim
-- Seven Transistor Labs Electrical Engineering Consultation Website: http://seventransistorlabs.com
A Tadiran lithium battery and a good LED would last at least 20 years, but I'd have to bore a big hole in the bedposts to drop the battery into. And I like the idea of telling people that the lights are nuclear.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology Inc www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com Precision electronic instrumentation
Hi,
If the tritium is decaying faster than expected.. maybe it is by a nuclear reactor??! :)
cheers, Jamie
Hi,
I agree, I think De Broglie was trying to do what Schrodinger did with the Schrodinger equation which is all about resonances and waves too, the whole Bohr/Heisenberg way of thinking is nothing really to do about quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger equation inherently contains the uncertainty principle built into it, Heisenberg may have figured it out too, but all the crazy interpretations in quantum mechanics disappear if the Schrodinger equation is used I think. But also the Schrodinger equation says there are no particles, except what we interpret as particles!
from that page: "In the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, the wave function is the most complete description that can be given to a physical system.
and subatomic systems, but also macroscopic systems, possibly even the whole universe"
cheers, Jamie
Hydrogen tends to diffuse and leak out through almost anything up to and including steel cylinders. I wouldn't worry about it though.
I think it unlikely that a 19keV electron can damage the phosphor or you would have seen tube based TVs fading on the same timescale.
If you can get it the tritiated plastics intended for airline emergency lighting applications are more robust than the little fishing floats.
Modern LEDs have come on so much that you can now do essentially the same thing with a couple of button cells and a 1M resistor. The battery lasts almost as long as its shelf life in this sort of usage.
-- Regards, Martin Brown
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