Accumulated over the years, but I got another one the other day that triggered me.
- Me:
- [Navigating to a business in the US sowthwqest]
- Creppy voice assistant (CVA):
- In five-hundred feet, turn left on El Camino Real Street1.
- Me:
- [::Sighs::]
- CVA:
- [Interrupts a conversation in the car]
- Me:
- Hold your horse, [CVA].
- CVA:
- [Starts reading the Wikipeia article on the idiom]
- Me:
- [CVA], play 2112.
- CVA:
- Now playing two-thousand-one-hundred-twelve.
- Me:
- [::Fumes:: until the music sweeps me away]
It's all about context seneitivity. Or the lack thereof.
1 With "Real" pronounced as a single sylable. Of course.
Hello dmckee. I need you man. Me and a team of high schoolers are trying to build a project but need to find a practical way to extend the lifetime of a muon. If you see this, when you see this, tell me some way to contact you. Thank you Mr. Dmckee and I look forward to working with you if you accept(pls do).
ReplyDeleteThe only way I know to extend the proper lifetime of a muon would be to place it in an environment where one or more of the product is energetically constrained by an existing degenerate collection. For instance the interior of a neutron star has a highly degenerate electron gas that would represent ap problem for neutron decay in that environment. N
ReplyDelete(continuing). You can, of course, extend the lab-frame lifetime by giving the particle relativistic velocity, but that's not much use unless you have a very long detector or can cool the muons and capture them in a storage ring ala the g-2 experiment. Alas, both ideas seem rather a stretch for what I imagine you budget to be.
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