FW: [asa] Varying decay rates with Solar distance

Agreed. "Time will tell" on non-immutable decay rates.

From: Kirk Bertsche [mailto:Bertsche@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:53 AM
To: George Cooper
Cc: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: 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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