On 11/5/2016 12:18 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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In message <768ee5a7-1c53-06cf-cf36-ec75e2901...@karlquist.com>, "Richard (Rick)
Karlquist" w
rites:
Reminds me of an interesting Jack Kusters story.
There was some customer who was having problems with
his atomic clocks being noisy (I don't remember exactly
the story) but the bottom line was that they determined
it was because of helium contamination.
How would helium make his clocks noisy ?
Isn't it more likely that it was the alphas from the
radon decay that did it by their charge ?
I probably am not remembering the story exactly, but
I do definitely remember it had to do with unexplained
helium, which they tried to blame Kusters company for.
He said there was a simple explanation, namely radon
gas emitting alpha particles that turn into helium
and helium can diffuse into "sealed" containers.
He basically told them that if they dropped the issue,
it wouldn't be necessary for him to publicize the fact
that their plant was full of radon. It was really
funny when Jack himself told it.
Rick
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