The one and only thing that has kept this from looking like a complete fiasco and amateur-hour is Greenyer’s cryptic message about the 5 hour self-sustaining event.
Now you are saying that there is no 5 hour event? The so-called gamma signal is a joke. There is little there but noise. This has been an incredibly disappointing non-event. My only hope is that Greenyer has something else to announce, because as of now this is a complete embarrassment to MFMP. From: Bob Higgins I am not sure where the idea of "5-hour self-sustaining event" came from. I never said it. I only discussed the radiation outburst. Did you read what I wrote? That was just a web article. There is still more analysis to come. You have no case for the radiation event being small or due to radon variation. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: From: Bob Higgins * * Where is your analysis that this spectrum could have come from a puff of radon gas? Bob, Santa Cruz CA is a radon hot spot. We are not talking about a “puff” we are talking about natural emission of Radon from earth, which is variable throughout the day. * There were longer background measurements that were entirely constant in photometric reduction. The indications of radon come primarily from the characteristic x-ray peak at 78keV (due to lead and bismuth dust being deposited on the scintillator from radon decay) which was quite predictable across the entire multiple-day data set. And also consistent with terrestrial radon emission. I live in this area, and I can tell you that many days you can measure a strong signal from the exhaust of a natural gas water heater and other days it will be gone. 78 keV is a classic radon signature. * Most of the radon transitions are alpha and beta emissions, not gamma, and I don't think there is a chance that the broadband spectrum can be explained this way. The gamma counts are extraordinarily low. There are trillions of times lower than what one would see from a self-sustaining reaction. Which brings up the main point WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE OF THE FIVE HOUR SELF-SUSTAINING EVENT ????? Jones
