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bill.stewart@pobox.com
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 08:54:24 -0700
>>I'm not convinced this is true: I can't influence the way a sample
>>decays, but surely I can inject my own alpha/beta/gamma particles into
>>the system at predictable moments? I'm not saying this is cheap or easy,
>>but surely possible.
>
>This would be essentially impossible to do without being detected, because
>the equipment needed to do so would have to be both large and near the
>detector. Not only that, but it would be essentially impossible to
The folks who run a large radioactivity source about 93 million miles away
might disagree on the need for nearness, though their source is
relatively detectable :-)
Unless your target has a physically secure environment,
which most people's houses and laboratories aren't, it doesn't take
a cyclotron to add some extra radioactivity near the detector,
just a bit of radioactive material. If you can't blackbag a radioactive
source into the detector itself, you can send radioactive paper mail, whether
junk mail for the wastebasket or free samples of yellow sticky notes.
Of course, if you've got physical access to the system, there are
all sorts of Bad Things you can do that are simpler than injecting
radioactivity into the system, though perhaps harder to detect.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:10 ADT