Re: [Phys-L] Half-Life measurement

[John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>]

Alas On 10/13/21 12:03 PM, I wrote some complete nonsense:

> I haven't done a proper quantitative fit, but an eyeball fit
> suggests that the baseline is considerably above the background,
> up around 0.2 events per second. Or am I mistaken about that???
>
> This is a big deal, because the curve fit routine must cope with
> the baseline, no matter where that's coming from, background or
> otherwise. And the baseline is high enough to be seriously annoying.

That's 100% gibberish.

I dyslexified 0.2 versus 2.0.

If (hypothetically) the baseline had been up around 2.0
then (hypothetically) we would have a problem, but in
fact it isn't and we don't.

In fact the data is consistent with baseline = background.

Sorry for the noise.