Re: [asa] Varying decay rates with Solar distance

I'd take this with a grain of salt unless/until verified by other
groups. Fischbach has proposed some far-out ideas in the past (e.g.
a "fifth force" to explain anomalies in gravitational data). In the
original paper from BNL, the authors suggest that seasonal changes in
temperature and humidity may be the cause of their annual
variations. They can't quite get the numbers to work out, but the
effect is in the right direction and at the right phase.

Kirk

On Aug 28, 2008, at 5:33 AM, George Cooper wrote:

> From this paper: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0808.3283 (which may be
> undergoing peer review)
>
> “Unexplained periodic fluctuations in the decay rates of Si-32 and
> Ra-226 have been reported by groups at Brookhaven National
> Laboratory (Si-32), and at the Physikalisch-Technische-
> Bundesandstalt in Germany (Ra-226). 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”
>
> During the recent Solar eclipse, some of this appears to have been
> tested:http://www.afrc.af.mil/newsreleases/story.asp?id=123108330
>
> Of course, the chances it will have an impact favorable to YEC is
> very remote.
>
> Coope
>

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