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Geiger QUOTES

Geiger QUOTES

1 " If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and involves something akin to surrounding it with a whole system of Geiger counters, I can freeze it in such a way that it stops emitting radiation.
Although Turing first suggested the idea as a theoretical construct, it turns out that it is not just mathematical fiction. Experiments in the last decade have demonstrated the real possibility of using observation to inhibit the progress of a quantum system. "

― Marcus du Sautoy , What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge

2 " Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero. "

― Liu Cixin , The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1)

3 " So you shoot people," she said quietly. " You're a killer." " Me? How?" " The papers and the police fixed it up nicely. But I don't believe everything I read." " Oh, you think I accounted for Geiger - or Brody-or both of them." She didn't say anything. " I didn't have to," I said. " I might have. I suppose, and got away with it. Neither of them would have hesitated to throw lead at." " That makes you a killer at heart, like all cops." " Oh, nuts. "

4 " Robert Oppenheimer used to tell of the pioneer mysteries of building reliable Geiger counters that had low background noise. Among his friends, he said, there were two schools of thought. One school firmly held that the final step before one sealed off the Geiger tube was to peel a banana and wave the skin three times, sharply to the left.
The other school was equally confident that success would follow if one waved the banana peel twice to the left and then, once, smartly to the right. (My counters were unbelievably bad because I didn't use either of these techniques.) "

― Luis W. Alvarez , Alvarez

5 " At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter" " But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?) "