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Harry On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Bob Higgins <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The detection count was not as low as you seem to believe. In spectrum 07 >> there were almost 300,000 counts in a signal that we believe probably lasted >> only a minute or two. Suppose it was 2 minutes or 120 seconds. That would >> come out to 2500 counts/second. Compare that to ~55,000 counts of >> background in 14,160 seconds which is <4 counts per second. That is a huge >> difference. > > > I think we are in agreement. I had in mind that the absolute counts were > low in comparison to the excess heat that was being reported at one point > (COP 1.2), rather than that the counts were insignificant or at the > threshold of noise. > >> Also, the solid angle of the detector which was sufficiently removed so as >> to not suffer bad heating means that the overall total flux integrated over >> 4pi was sizeable. > > > This gets to the challenge of needing to show that the photons were sourced > from the live cell. This would be made easier with time resolution of the > counts (which you mention) and a correlation with another dependent or > independent variable. If not excess power, then perhaps something else. > (Input power?) > > Eric >
