"I suspect that at time of death, brain activity doesn't instantly cease, but decays."
I suspect that was not the case for the guy who was sucked into the jet engine :) Or it was a pretty fast decay... Didier Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Mike Naruta AA8K <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 06:26:41 To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected], Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Determining Time-Nut infection severity I suspect that at time of death, brain activity doesn't instantly cease, but decays. Unless we would be able to monitor all brain activity, we are stuck with a bald man paradox, perhaps calculating the half-life of brain activity. Maybe we could attempt to measure the weight of the departing soul (Dr. Duncan MacDougall 1907)? Surely the soul of a time-nut is more substantial than, say, a politician. Mike (Dead Weight) AA8K On 10/24/2010 11:26 PM, Steve Rooke wrote: > > But isn't the clinical definition of death, brain death, as the heart > may stop but the person be resuscitated tens of seconds later. In our > terms, tens of seconds is like a lifetime so heatbeat is out as the > TOD metric. I would propose we develop a hat with inbuilt electrodes > that touch the scalp and measure brain activity. Once this has decayed > to the level as clinically defined as brain dead, a timestamp should > be made against a standard that is reasonably accurate to the degree > of uncertainty of the death event, IE. it is likely that the brain > activity will stop instantly with such a sharp cutoff as to be less > than a ms, us or whatever. The hat would include an integrated GPSDO > built upon a flexible PCB board design with integrated path antenna > positioned at the top. This could easily be powered by solar cells > charging very thin lithium ion flexible batteries embedded in the hat. > Of course the hat needs to be worn 24x7 so it would have to be of a > design that lends itself to sleeping hours as well therefore being a > sleeping cap so something like a beanie may be a starting point. > Extensions to the design may be a time display which would, of course, > double as the TOD display for those concerned with your internment and > the engraving of your tombstone. A PPS and disciplined oscillator > connection could also be incorporated as a form of mobile reference > for the wearer. As for cleaning, two of such hats would be owned by > the user with one "in the wash" while the other is being worn. Of > course, careful planning and design needs to be taken in the choice of > circuitry and construction so as to all the hat to be cleaned. There > is, of course, the faint possibility of death during the swapping of > but some careful planning of how to do the hat swap may alleviate this > window. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
