scintillations

Under a microscope the faint scintillations in the zinc sulfide could be individually distinguished and counted.

All the radiation grifters on Youtube who talk about scintillations per m^3 of seawater as proof that Fukushima is killing Californians, etc.

The thing that got me each time were the purity of the red-green-blues of the scintillations as well as the triangular geographical shapes that seemed to reveal the foundations of cognition.

I met a scientist who looked into a particle accelerator; it was intention, part of a self-experiment to establish whether high energy particles can cause scintillations in the eye.

He did not know of any such taxonomy, but he did say he was familiar with the concept, because one of the instruments they use involves a video feed that's affected by scintillations.

I ran it for a while 24/7 and while there are "scintillations" there aren't any circular waves.

One of my favorite anecdotes, heard straight from the scientist himself: "You remember that scene in The Right Stuff where one of the astronauts sees funny scintillations when he's in space?

Even through the microscope the scintillations hovered at the edge of visibility; a counter who expected the experiment to produce a certain number of scintillations sometimes unintentionally saw imaginary flashes." Thank god they invented the photomultiplier before I arrived on the scene.

Two main reasons: * The electronics to count scintillations (energy bursts at some X keV or MeV energy level) get flooded and overwhelmed; there's a "dead zone" following each detection count, as events increase in number, the percentage of dropped | undetected events increases.

I ran it for a while 24/7 and while there are "scintillations" there aren't any circular waves.

One of my favorite anecdotes, heard straight from the scientist himself: "You remember that scene in The Right Stuff where one of the astronauts sees funny scintillations when he's in space?

Even through the microscope the scintillations hovered at the edge of visibility; a counter who expected the experiment to produce a certain number of scintillations sometimes unintentionally saw imaginary flashes." Thank god they invented the photomultiplier before I arrived on the scene.

Two main reasons: * The electronics to count scintillations (energy bursts at some X keV or MeV energy level) get flooded and overwhelmed; there's a "dead zone" following each detection count, as events increase in number, the percentage of dropped | undetected events increases.