Alan, if you look at the photograph, you see GM#1 on the apparatus,
where it is clearly shown in the diagram (Fig. 5), and GM#2 is
hanging by a wire off to the right , as clearly stated under the
photograph.
GM#2 never detects radiation from the sample but can detect radiation
from GM#1 when it is activated. (Fig. 13)
The GM used were the only ones available at the time. We never
expected the mica to be activated. Now that we know this, we are doing
what is obvious to everyone. However, as I clearly state, this is a
progress report being published to alert people to the strange behavior.
Ed
On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Alan J Fletcher wrote:
At 11:26 AM 10/23/2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
I uploaded a version of this paper with some revisions and
corrections.
http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/StormsEnatureofen.pdf
I had to read it several times to figure out the relationship
between GM#1 and GM#2.
Let me summarize my current understanding to see if I've got it right
Specimen ---> Mica Window --> GM#1
*- - - - - - - > *-----------------------> GM#2
GM#1 and GM#2 show counts both from the specimen and from the Mica
Window
Insert lead :
Specimen ---> LEAD Mica Window --> GM#1
*-----------------------> GM#2
GM#1 and GM#2 are no longer detecting radiation from the Specimen,
but are detecting the decay of K40
in the Mica window.
So the the discovery is that the radiation from the specimen is
doing "something" to K40 -- which decays with a half-life of 109
minutes.
At the very least, that should be in the abstract as well as in the
conclusion.
Lead-on question :
Why not use a NON-mica GM#1 AND #GM2, and then insert mica into the
specimen->GM#1 path
Specimen -----------------------> GM#1
-----------------------------------------> GM#2
Insert MICA :
Specimen ---> MICA ------> GM#1
-----------------------------> #GM2
and/or
Specimen ---> LEAD MICA ------> GM#1
-----------------------------
> #GM2
Then remove the mica and put it next to GM#3 to record its decay
(possibly with a separate background-detector GM#4)
MICA ---> GM#3
