shake

[SloGlo]

in nuclear terminology, what is a shake and what time reference is given?

[RNN]

WW II terminology for 2 shakes of a lambs tail and is 10 nanoseconds 

* Edit for a bad spelling of Tail * sheesh!

[SloGlo]

rnn...... close, but no taco.

[Marlin]

That's what is on Wikpedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_%28time%29

and in Time magazine

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,859483,00.html

[stirfry]

I thought" SHAKE " was what was left in the bottom of the baggieafter the stems and seeds were taken out 

[alphadude]

dude i cant believe you said that -its called swag now...

[stirfry]

Guess I'm showing my age and lack of current events  (Like purchase and use)

[alphadude]

we are talking about pop corn arent we??

[SloGlo]

That's what is on Wikpedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_%28time%29

and in Time magazine

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,859483,00.html

dang! eye nebber thaught two use that hitek approach.  i guess if even marlin is wikipedia-ing on this i'd better go to my source.....

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Fission/Fission8.shtml


because i wuz looking for the speed of fission.....



Time of Reaction
The released neutron travels at speeds of about 10 million meters per second, or about 3% the speed of light. The characteristic time for a generation is roughly the time required to cross the diameter of the sphere of fissionable material.

A critical mass of uranium is about the size of a baseball (0.1 meters). The time, T, the neutron would take to cross the sphere is:

T =
0.1 meters


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 x 10 7 meters/second

=
1 x 10 -8 seconds


The complete process of a bomb explosion is about 80 times this number, or about a microsecond.

This time was informally known as a 'shake' ("as fast as the shake of a lamb's tail") by the physicists at Los Alamos .



witch is close to "10 nanoseconds", but not quite.   

[SloGlo]

I thought" SHAKE " was what was left in the bottom of the baggieafter the stems and seeds were taken out 

i dunno about dat.  i..... red a book once that sayed......that stuff was called mine.

[shovelheadred]

...its that time of year, Man, I am down to stemz-n-seedz myself.....mostly seedz, readying for the next cashcrop.....red

[alphadude]

i hear dat
red can you fit and weld or is that a thang of the past

[shovelheadred]

...You know I can...got a portable MIG rig in my truck, and a plasma arc.....I am in Iowa right now though.............everthang F-R-O-Z-E...

[Mike McFarlin]

It ain't that cold is it?

[SloGlo]

i dunno bout iowa, but here in da burgh, itz so cold the only thing that kin move fast enuf to keep warm is a lambs tail!

[shovelheadred]

..cold, yes, C-O-L-D....today is the first day it has been above 0 since the 26th of January...but thats why the $$ is good,,,that and its UNION...(little plug for JJ Jordan)..I am working with the Millwrights, a knowledgable bunch..their local trains them in Safety and Rp once a year, they get 40 hours worth of training..makes my job easier..well we are working the $$ end of the turbine,,and its ..green is clean...how did I get to this from STEMZNSEEDZ?....sorry, red

[Brett LaVigne]

in nuclear terminology, what is a shake and what time reference is given?

Shake, is what is left over when the buds are gone.

Oops, guess I need to read previous posts before I post. Duuuuuh!