In Bertil Jonell's posting on the topic of nuclear dampers in real life,
he mentioned an article in ``New Scientist'', a British science magazine.
American readers might be interested in an article in the latest ``Discover''
which covers the same topic, and with similar news - a frequently observed
system was observed to have a much slower half-life than an unobserved one,
the slowdown being proportional to the frequency of observation.
Actually, when I read the original posting I figured that it was in the
Daedalus column of New Scientist, which features wacko but plausible
inventions. Sometimes its quite hard to work out why they wouldn't work...
Jonathan Clark
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for some noble purpose.