3254: Detector
| Detector |
 Title text: No other experiment has a lower false negative rate. |
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[Hairy is standing next to a large machine. The front of the machine has two lights, labeled "detected" and "not detected". Ponytail and Cueball walk towards the machine]
Ponytail: Over there are our electron microscope, XRF scanner, and mass spectrometer. And this is our most sensitive detector.
Cueball: What does it detect?
Ponytail: Lots of stuff. Gas, dust, particles, light, radio waves, gamma rays, protons, neutrons, electrons, fields, forces, events, potentials, or states.
Cueball: I don't understand. Aren't most of those always present?
Hairy: Yeah, it's been saying "detected" continuously since we turned it on.
Cueball: What happens if it says "not detected"?
Ponytail: Oh gosh.
Hairy: That would be pretty bad, I think.
Title text: No other experiment has a lower false negative rate.
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