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- From: alexo+@cs.cmu.edu (Alex Orenshteyn)
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- Subject: Re: The importance of being chained
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.142915.289051@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:29:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul29.142915.289051
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- In article <9207290006.AA08478@sleepy.network.com> logajan@SLEEPY.NETWORK.COM (John Logajan) writes:
- >Tom Droege reports an apparent 9mW average difference between
- >
- >It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that some sort of chain
- >reaction *must* be appealed to. [Standard disclaimer about the
- >reliability of the original data, etc.]
- >
- >An average gain per trigger event of less than 1.0 will never
- >account for the gain of 150 million. An average gain of exactly
- >1.00000 will not account for it either.
- >
- >Only gains greater than an average of 1.00000 can hope to account
- >for the net gain of 1.5E+8. And gains greater than, yet very
- >nearly, 1.00000 are improbable due to the arbitrary geometry of
- >the Pd cathode surface which presumably "leaks" doomed chain
- >events.
- >
- >The only logical conclusion to be drawn is that the gain is
- >greater than 1.0000 by some significant amount. But that leads to
- >further requirements. If the event times are on the order of
- I am glad someone else thinks there is a possibility of chain
- reaction (possibly run-away if the geometry is right). As I said before,
- people probably have to be carefull what kind of electrodes they build,
- high surface/volume ratio is probably safe.
-