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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Robert_W_Horst
- From: Robert_W_Horst@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: Trinary experiments
- Message-ID: <63043@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:33:55 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Another idea for Droege's latest experiment would be to
- change it from a binary experiment (source "In" or "Out"), to
- a trinary experiment ("In", "Out", or "Mid"). The Mid state
- would have approximately half the radiation reaching the
- cathode. This could be done by moving the source farther
- from the experiment, using separate strong/weak sources, or
- by interposing some material to reduce the radiation reaching
- the experiment by about 50%. He could run for 24 hours in
- each of the three states, or better yet, run for 12 hours in
- each state. Then, if the two 12-hour periods per day are
- called AM and PM, in a three day period he would get all six
- states -- In_AM, Mid_PM, Out_AM, In_PM, Mid_AM, Out_PM, ...
- If the trials are not thought to be independent, the next
- three day period could reverse the order (Out would follow In
- rather than Mid).
-
- The statisticians could then go crazy -- determining the
- effect of AM/PM, memory effects, correlations with weak and
- strong sources, etc.
-
- -- Bob Horst
-
-