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- From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Physics News Update #111 (1/21)
- Keywords: physics news interesting banana dumb joke
- Message-ID: <Jan.23.16.49.29.1993.17790@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 21:49:29 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.053914.21600@midway.uchicago.edu> <22JAN199309291482@csa2.lbl.gov>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
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- >>SQUID DETECTORS OPERATING IN THE MILLIATTOVOLT range ...
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- >Does anyone know how they shield their detector from stray electric
- >fields down to the zVolt level? Seems like a tall order to me.
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- Although squids are often considered to have primitive nervous
- systems, they are very good at certain tasks such as this kind of
- S/N discrimination - possibly due to environmental selection for it.
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