Re: [OT] Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance

VERY interesting paper. Thanks for the catch!

--Bob A

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:03 AM, Chris Smolinski
<csmolinski <at> blackcatsystems.com> wrote:
> Evidence for Correlations Between Nuclear Decay Rates and Earth-Sun Distance
>
> Unexplained periodic fluctuations in the decay rates of 32 Si and 226
> Ra have been reported
> by groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory ( 32 Si), and at the
> Physikalisch-Technische-
> Bundesandstalt in Germany( 226 Ra). We show from an analysis of the
> raw data in these experiments
> that the observed fluctuations are strongly correlated in time, not
> only with each other, but also with
> the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Some implications of
> these results are also discussed,
> including the suggestion that discrepancies in published half-life
> determinations for these and other
> nuclides may be attributable in part to differences in solar activity
> during the course of  the various
> experiments, or to seasonal variations in fundamental constants.
>
>
> http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.3283v1
>
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