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So what is your best estimate of the half life of tritium based on a quarter of a years data so far then?

You will need to measure it over this time baseline with an accuracy of

0.02 years or better to stand any chance of detecting the alleged solar neutrino influence on radioactive half life.

The latter looks incredibly like systematic thermal drift to me since the maximum excursions at the labs occur a couple of months after perihelion which is consistent with thermal lag of the local climate.

Regards, Martin Brown

On a sunny day (Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:40:41 +0100) it happened Martin Brown wrote in :

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As I have stated before on this subject, I am not starting analysis before I have a year worth of data.

I did check from time to time some data points, mainly to see if things work correctly.

I CAN tell you the thermostat has kept the temperature of the box with tritium light, reference voltages (2), ADC, and the rest of the electronics, stable to within

1/2 degree °C. Temperature is logged each hour together with the data.

So that is not a worry I think at this moment. It is pretty hot here now (29 °C), and you can see the heater PWM is way down...

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Gee Jan, so you're just teasing us with the post :^)

You've "cracked the seal", why not let us see some data?

George H.

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Please post your web site on the specifics of this project.

Thanks

On a sunny day (Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:27:08 -0700 (PDT)) it happened George Herold wrote in :

No, it is a promised progress report, and design soundness confirmation:-)

I have not cracked the seal in any way, as there is no 'seal'.

As to the question from Hamilton about a website, design and link to early diagrams were posted in this group. Maybe google still has it. Once I have all data I will write a paper, it will have all diagrams, the data, any error analysis if needed, and all will be publically available.

This was actually started as a test run on the design, but just keeps going, so why change anything, as it works.

Data is stored in 2 internal iic EEPROMs, pretty safe place.

Will the US elections influence the data? This is the question, at least one of the questions that will be answered later. :-)

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Thanks for doing this experiment.

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-Sam Wormley

On a sunny day (Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:08:31 -0500) it happened Sam Wormley wrote in :

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You are welcome.

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Hi Jan, I was using =91breaking the seal=92 metaphorically, in that you=92ve reminded us of the experiment. Most of us don=92t care if your results show global warming, or predict the upcoming US election. But we all wonder if you can see the ~13 year half life? (and how well.)

George H.

On a sunny day (Mon, 13 Aug 2012 08:45:34 -0700 (PDT)) it happened George Herold wrote in :

Have you ever wondered why NASA never releases data until about a year or so later?

You mean like all the Mars stuff just 4 days old available on

NASA are amongst the fastest researchers to release their raw data to the global scientific community. Some of the solar satellites allow amateurs to scour it for serendipitous discoveries in real time.

There is an outside chance that your experiment might be able to measure the half life of tritium to one or two decimal places.

It might do a bit better if some attempt was made to fine tune it. You have to be able to measure the half life from the data you have now with very good precision to stand any chance at all of reaching your final goal of determining the seasonal variation.

Regards, Martin Brown

On a sunny day (Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:14:31 +0100) it happened Martin Brown wrote in :

That is not science, I have commented on that before. With the 2 rovers we have had endless media coverage in the form of: Today ... drove ... feet (meters), and drilled a hole in 'big rock' etc etc etc day after day, until you stop reading it as it gives zero information except new names of rocks (named after Mickey mouse and what not).

The SCIENCE and analysis of the data obtained does not normally appear for many month if not years. This is just to give their researchers time to analyze, and write decent papers. And maybe even get some credit.

Same for Hubble, the pictures make great media, but remember people get weary really fast too. I have already sort of stopped looking at Curiosity's latest.. I will wait for their analysis. Of course if it really hits the jackpot and photographs a fossil or something, yes, but then there is this little voice in me that says they will not release that, and leave it to politics to do what it want to do with it for its own purposes. After all a zillion religions and zillions of people, large masses, need to be guided (by the blind I give you that), so we can have world piece (and not peace) or a piece of the world, or what ever, wars, well you know human nature, how short a time did it take to make the earth flat (by decree), and how long did it take to make it round again (the ancient ones knew it was round already). OK :-)