not sure like a few hours I think.
I bought a adapter from fluke so I can get a high temp probe in there to graph it on a fluke 289 because I am not going to write it down by hand like a graduate student. The probe I have right now that can connect to banana jack is like 300C max... so next week I will get a graph
A long time ago I saw my tax money being spent to get two kids to sit infront of a gieger counter manually logging it for 10+hours. I walked by in the morning for work they were there. I walked by at night after a lab lecture they were still there. I decided I will try to avoid getting into that pickle. And it was graph paper, with full scholarship physics grad students
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It was studying the decay of a particle accelerator target. I know those samples were very important to them.
I actually thought it was some kind of hazing ritual, the way they were sitting on stools in the middle of the room looking at the sample. I wanted to throw some paper balls at them. I may have even seen them at some other time, like a few days later.
In a sense its the ultimate "watching paint dry" experience. A number of particles evaporate into gamma steam.
My experience would serve as a excellent into to one of the Stargate episodes about a time loop. "weren't you guys here.. doing the same thing.. way before?" Is it some kinda hologram ? Can this be real?
For all I know they are still there, reliving the same 5 minutes of time over and over and over again. Perhaps they made a naked singularity in there. I wonder what would happen if you threw a paper ball in there, it would probobly get stuck in mid air half way into the room.
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