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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!psuvax1!psuvm!ccb104
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:12:47 EDT
- From: <CCB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92203.121247CCB104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Radionuclide Half-Lives
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- For want of a sponsor or potential "licensee," an official "Invention
- Disclosure" outlining an unconventional method of forcibly changing
- nuclear-decay "half-lives" has been sitting in an office gathering
- dust. Although the method uses certain kinds of currently available
- though, in some cases, somewhat "exotic" electronic devices (if you
- consider SQUIDs, IMPATT devices, or UJTs to be "exotic"), and although
- the method is described in sufficient detail in the disclosure to make
- it easy to put the "invention" into operation to see if it does what it
- is supposed to do, it seems to be going nowhere.
- The reasons are (1) the "invention" supposedly has no commercial value
- and (2) the "inventor" hasn't turned over to the authorities the basic
- equations comprising the theoretical basis for the "invention," one of
- which is some kind of non-source-free Klein-Gordon equation.
- I don't remember the official disclosure registration number, but I
- could find it out easily enough, or else, if someone or some organization
- is interested in looking into the possibility of being a "sponsor" or
- "licensee," let me know and I'll put you in touch.
- A well known university is the current "holder" or "owner" of the "Inven-
- tion Disclosure," not me. =-)
- (Also, it's not sitting in *my* office, but theirs.)
- Thanks,
- Carey
- ccb104@psuvm.bitnet
- I do not speak for my employer.
-