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Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

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Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

I cannot afford that, so I have to buy a broken decommissioned piece of equipment, fix it, And it takes a while, and it's a precision piece of machinery, so you cannot just fix it. So you need to call tech support, and you need to get professional help in calibrating everything, make sure everything is working to where the results of the microanalysis are trustworthy. So that's a difficult part.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

I cannot afford that, so I have to buy a broken decommissioned piece of equipment, fix it, And it takes a while, and it's a precision piece of machinery, so you cannot just fix it. So you need to call tech support, and you need to get professional help in calibrating everything, make sure everything is working to where the results of the microanalysis are trustworthy. So that's a difficult part.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

It's easy to make things work poorly. You get to that point quickly, right? But here, you know, we're doing science and we want to look at, you know, minor contaminants, you know, trace elements. So it takes an effort to get instrument to that level. But, you know, I'm on my way.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

It's easy to make things work poorly. You get to that point quickly, right? But here, you know, we're doing science and we want to look at, you know, minor contaminants, you know, trace elements. So it takes an effort to get instrument to that level. But, you know, I'm on my way.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

It's easy to make things work poorly. You get to that point quickly, right? But here, you know, we're doing science and we want to look at, you know, minor contaminants, you know, trace elements. So it takes an effort to get instrument to that level. But, you know, I'm on my way.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So I have a call scheduled with tech support and hopefully with their help, I'll be able to get microanalysis on my microscope working. Then I'll be in a good position to... I mean, working with a great degree of certainty, then I'll be in a good position to study, you know, flat objects. And maybe I'll discover some contaminants, or maybe not.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So I have a call scheduled with tech support and hopefully with their help, I'll be able to get microanalysis on my microscope working. Then I'll be in a good position to... I mean, working with a great degree of certainty, then I'll be in a good position to study, you know, flat objects. And maybe I'll discover some contaminants, or maybe not.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

So I have a call scheduled with tech support and hopefully with their help, I'll be able to get microanalysis on my microscope working. Then I'll be in a good position to... I mean, working with a great degree of certainty, then I'll be in a good position to study, you know, flat objects. And maybe I'll discover some contaminants, or maybe not.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

But I'm also, as I said, I'm also interested in picking up, you know, a couple more artifacts from you and maybe studying them in that gamma detector. See, maybe there will be some radiation there too.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

But I'm also, as I said, I'm also interested in picking up, you know, a couple more artifacts from you and maybe studying them in that gamma detector. See, maybe there will be some radiation there too.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

But I'm also, as I said, I'm also interested in picking up, you know, a couple more artifacts from you and maybe studying them in that gamma detector. See, maybe there will be some radiation there too.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

An important qualification. But this is, I guess, the most exciting part to me. When I read research about Egyptian temples and Egyptian pyramids and sarcophagi and sites, I find very little mention of radiation studies. And this is what I'm very interested and capable of doing. I have portable spectrometers, let's say, that I can take and I can collect radiation background.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

An important qualification. But this is, I guess, the most exciting part to me. When I read research about Egyptian temples and Egyptian pyramids and sarcophagi and sites, I find very little mention of radiation studies. And this is what I'm very interested and capable of doing. I have portable spectrometers, let's say, that I can take and I can collect radiation background.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

An important qualification. But this is, I guess, the most exciting part to me. When I read research about Egyptian temples and Egyptian pyramids and sarcophagi and sites, I find very little mention of radiation studies. And this is what I'm very interested and capable of doing. I have portable spectrometers, let's say, that I can take and I can collect radiation background.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

And I can see whether, let's say, a sarcophagus or something else has an unusual signature to it. And all of that could be recorded and analyzed.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

And I can see whether, let's say, a sarcophagus or something else has an unusual signature to it. And all of that could be recorded and analyzed.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

And I can see whether, let's say, a sarcophagus or something else has an unusual signature to it. And all of that could be recorded and analyzed.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

And it's also possible to do a superficial microanalysis in situ to where you have like a portable XRF gun that you can put, let's say to a granite block or to a stone or to a chip that you find on the ground, collect all of that information, analyze later and look for anomalies.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

And it's also possible to do a superficial microanalysis in situ to where you have like a portable XRF gun that you can put, let's say to a granite block or to a stone or to a chip that you find on the ground, collect all of that information, analyze later and look for anomalies.

Matt Beall Limitless
Impossible Precision: A Scientific Study of Ancient Egyptian Stone Vessels | #45 Dr. Max Fomitchev-Zamilov

And it's also possible to do a superficial microanalysis in situ to where you have like a portable XRF gun that you can put, let's say to a granite block or to a stone or to a chip that you find on the ground, collect all of that information, analyze later and look for anomalies.