[NewCandle] influence of aluminum geometry on Geiger counter rates

[Nick Reiter]

Greetings all, and happy 2010.  Now only two more years until the Annunaki return, led by Lord Elvis.

Hope all had a fine holiday.  I myself seem to have gotten wacked by a horrid abdominal flu right before Xmas, that took me out for a bit.  However not so much as to prevent me from trying a couple more experiments with foil rolls.  Just when I think I can tie things up neatly, I observe something quirky that sends me off on a vector.

Sam Faile suggested trying a bucket run of foil rolls in distilled water, however two of the rolls would be "hot" ones from the second of the uranyl acetate run, and the rest would be controls - fresh foil rolls, not exposed to any previous ionic medium, uranyl or otherwise.  The purpose originally with this one was to see if any reactions or radioactivity would be catylized or triggered in virgin rolls surrounding the two "hot" rolls.

Results were pretty much negative - nothing seemed to take off, and when finally pulled, the virgin rolls were only slightly higher than ambient (which in my basement locale is about 50cpm average).

HOWEVER, I did observe something I found interesting.  When I started that bucket, the rolls were already in place, and the Geiger counter window was aimed at its usual position, looking in at the long cross section axis of the bucket.  The CPM count rate looking at the two "hot" rolls and four virgins was about 80 to 100cpm.  I then added distilled water.  Now if I had any anticipation at all of the result, I thought perhaps I would see a slight repeat of the effect noted back in November, where the cpm would rise, when the foil rolls were added to the uranyl acetate solution.  However this time, when I added water to the rolls, and the water began to soak into the turns... the cpm read by the counter dropped, and for about 10 minutes went to a minumus of about 10cpm, before rising slowly over the next 20 minutes or so to about the same level produced by the rolls alone.

This past weekend, I tried a replication of this, using all fresh components and NO ionic salt, or uranyl acetate.  Just distilled water, fresh Al foil rolls, and clean new bucket.  Even set it up in my kitchen, to get away from any background offset from my old "hot" rolls in the basement.

Looks like it reproduced.  The ambient background cpm in the kitchen was lower - about 40cpm.  I ran three control arrangements first:

1.  Let the Geiger counter stabilize for 10 minutes on the kitchen table.
2.  Added water to the plastic bucket, and place this in front of the Geiger counter window, to see if there was any noticeable decrease in the ambient count, due to blocking or absorption by the water.  No change.
3.  Took the water out of the bucket, dried it, and stacked the six fresh foil rolls in it.  Placed this in front of the Geiger tube window, to again look for any attenuation due to directional blocking.  None noted.
4.  I then poured the water back into the bucket, allowing it to cover the roll tops and begin wicking into the turns.

At about T+ 2 minutes, until maybe T+10 minutes, the count rate dropped low, to about 10cpm.  It eventually rose back up to ambient.  During the time of attenuation, there were occasional "spikes" or jumps, maybe once every 45 seconds I would guess.  However the normalized cpm would have been distinctly lower than the starting or finishing ambient.

Still trying to put it together, but whatever is going on... as in the earlier experiments... seems to happen during the period of time that water / solution is travelling up or down the micron to submicron gaps between foil turns.  This latest would hint that the effect is not necessarily dependent on ionic or radioactive species in the water.

Upshot - the impression to me is that there is an emission or absorption of energy that occurs when water or aqueous media flows into the many-turn irregular Casimir cavity formed by a rolled metal foil.  Now, how to keep trying to disprove that.

nr