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Why the World is Quantum

Posted on February 2, 2025 by maxfomitchev

The reason the Universe is governed by quantum effects at a microscopic level is because there is a delay between cause and effect. Another way of saying this is that the Universe is fundamentally oscillatory in nature bcause there is ... Read More

Failure of the Laws of Newton

Posted on January 30, 2025February 2, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Norton's Dome In 2003 John Norton came up with a paradox known as Norton’s Dome, which purports to show that Newton’s physics is non-deterministic since an object placed at the top of the dome will not stay there forever but ... Read More

High-Resolution Spectroscopy with LaBr3

Posted on January 21, 2025January 21, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Cerium-doped lanthanum bromide - LaBr3(Ce) - scintillators offer better resolution and greater stopping power compared to conventional thallium-doped sodium iodine - NaI(Tl) - scintillators. A typical lanthanum bromide scintillator achieves a 2.5% FWHM @ 662 keV resolution compared to a ... Read More

Radiological Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vases

Posted on January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 by maxfomitchev

The astonishing precision of ancient Egyptian stone vases motivated me to put forth a nuclear machining hypothesis, which I decided to test by measuring gamma spectra of two stone vases from Matt Beall's collection using high-precision germanium spectroscopy. For this ... Read More

Nuclear Machining Hypothesis

Posted on January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Marveling at the precision of ancient Egyptian stone artifacts (be that granite sarcophagi or stone vases), I realized that we are trying to explain how these objects could have been made using our contemporary technology. If we are to believe ... Read More

Astonishing Precision of Predynastic Egyptian Stone Vessels: A Metrological Study

Posted on January 3, 2025January 26, 2025 by maxfomitchev

Background Adam Young and Ben van Kerkwyk made interesting claims that certain ancient Egyptian stone vases are astonishingly precise. This motivated me to conduct an independent metrological study of similar artifacts, including: 22 purportedly predynastic Egyptian stone vases from Matt ... Read More

Continuing on Quine’s Paradox

Posted on September 25, 2024September 25, 2024 by maxfomitchev

Previously I have shown that Quine's paradox disappears once we take time into account. Computations and logical inferences neither happen instantaneously nor at the same time. For all practical purposes, when we engage in the application of math or logic, ... Read More

Introduction to Neutron Detection

Posted on September 21, 2024September 21, 2024 by maxfomitchev

3He proportional neutron counters (helium-3 gas filled tubes) are currently the most sensitive type of neutron detectors. These detectors owe their high sensitivity to thermal neutrons to the exceptionally high probability of thermal neutron capture by helium-3 atoms (technically speaking, ... Read More

Alpha Spectrometry with MCA-PRO

Posted on September 16, 2024September 23, 2024 by maxfomitchev

I have setup an alpha spectroscopy test system using an Ortec Soloist alpha spectrometer (brochure) and an MCA-PRO as follows (Fig. 1): I have installed an Ortec Soloist into a BNC Portanium AP-3 portable NIM crate to provide the +/-12 ... Read More

Making Titanium Deuteride Powder

Posted on July 24, 2024December 28, 2024 by maxfomitchev

The most straightforward way to make titanium deuteride powder is to heat titanium sponge to ~350-450°C in D2 atmosphere. Once this temperature is reached titanium will react with deuterium gas rapidly through an exothermic reaction Ti + D2 = TiD2. ... Read More

RELIABLE NEUTRON AND GAMMA DETECTION

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