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August 25th, 2010, 15:05 GMT · By Tudor Vieru
The Sun Influences the Decay of Radioactive Elements |
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In spite of being located no less than 93 million miles away from Earth, the Sun appears to be influencing the decay of radioactive elements inside research labs on the planet.The conclusion belongs to a new investigation, which was carried out by experts at the Purdue University and the Stanford University.
The problem with the result is that the answer the team provides for this unexpected mystery appears to be raising other questions in return. According to the physicists in the new research, it could even be that the Sun is exerting its influence on radioactive matter through an elementary particle that has never been detected before. “That would be truly remarkable,” explains Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics and solar expert Peter Sturrock. He was a part of the group that conducted the work.. According to established theories, the decay of a specific radioactive material is a constant. This idea is used to determine what radiation doses to give to cancer patients, as well as to calculate the age of samples using carbon-14. Researchers at the Purdue University now contest the idea that the constant exist, basing their claim on a series of experiments which show the existence of disagreements in the measured decay rates of various radioactive isotopes. The new data, proposed by Purdue physics professor Ephraim Fischbach, was tested and confirmed by teams at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute, in Germany, These two labs also found that small seasonal variations existed in the decay rates of the chemical elements silicon-32 and radium-226. Researchers here found that decay rates during the summer season were slightly faster than those present during winter. Even if the differences are minute, the basic rule of a constant, which is being, well, constant, are broken. The finding could have significant implications. The teams at the BNL and the FPTI began wondering whether the differences occurred on account of computer hardware, or some other device used in the measurement. “Everyone thought it must be due to experimental mistakes, because we're all brought up to believe that decay rates are constant,” Sturrock explains “It doesn't make sense according to conventional ideas,” Fischbach explains. “Theorists are starting to say, 'What's going on?' But that's what the evidence points to. It's a challenge for the physicists and a challenge for the solar people too,” says Sturrock. It may very well be that the interaction between the Sun and radioactive materials is caused by a new, yet-undiscovered particle, physicists say. “It's an effect that no one yet understands,” Sturrock concludes.
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| Comment #1 by: Nathan on 25 Aug 2010, 23:08 UTC | reply to this comment | Fascinating... Defiantly interesting! |
| Comment #1.1 by: amos33 on 16 Jan 2011, 04:57 GMT | Maybe the Earth is not 60 million years old but 6,000 ?
Time to return to the Bible for the answers.
"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;" Luke 21:35 |
| Comment #1.2 by: Tudor Vieru on 18 Jan 2011, 11:50 GMT | the Earth is 6,000 years old only in the narrow mind of religious fanatics. dixit! |
| Comment #1.3 by: Pontius Pilot on 26 Apr 2011, 14:34 GMT | Correction: 6000 million years, actually, to the nearest factor of ten!
We can observe galaxies in the universe that are up to twice that age.
The Bible was a recent afterthought! |
| Comment #1.4 by: Steve on 02 May 2011, 19:37 GMT | The opening words of Genesis tell us: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Do these words of Genesis say that this happened about ten thousand years ago? No, it gives no time period. “The beginning” could therefore have been billions of years ago. |
| Comment #2 by: Greg on 26 Aug 2010, 19:29 UTC | reply to this comment | Very poor reporting. Correlation is not causation. There may be a third entity that is causing both the change in solar activity and the change in radioactive decay. |
| Comment #2.1 by: Brad on 27 Dec 2010, 16:59 GMT | Point granted that a third thing might cause both, bowever that claim is equally devistating to those who maintain that radioactive decay is "uncaused". |
| Comment #3 by: JAKE on 28 Sep 2010, 02:44 UTC | reply to this comment | Quantum spin causes gravity. Loss of energy causes radioactivity. Radiation is energy that escapes quantum gravity through centrifugal force. What causes quantum spin? Consciousness! When consciousness increases, spin increases causing additional radiation to be emitted. Therefore, higher consciousness is the cause of additional radioactive decay. The big question is, what is this change in quantum spin going to do to humans (DNA) and our environment? |
| Comment #3.1 by: Brad on 27 Dec 2010, 17:01 GMT | Many of us find the idea that consciousness is essential to the game difficulty to swallow. HUmanity appears to be a recent accidental addition to the furniture of the universe. Of course, we could have brought about the universe thorugh backward causation, but that is alos hard for many of us to swallow?
Never the less I recognize the rationality of your point of view. |
| Comment #3.2 by: Dr. Obvious on 21 Apr 2011, 02:34 GMT | and what causes consciousness?
please dont tell me its Quantum gravity. |
| Comment #4 by: matt k. on 22 Dec 2010, 22:15 UTC | reply to this comment | As Michio Kaku said (quoting slightly out of context here), “...these constants may change...”
:-)
matt k. |
| Comment #5 by: Brad on 27 Dec 2010, 16:57 UTC | reply to this comment | This makes it very difficult to swallow the idea that radioactive decay is un-caused. A completely random spontaneous event as is claimed by those who believe that quantum mechanics is a "complete description of reality". Could still be, but it is harder to swallow now. |
| Comment #6 by: Einstein on 09 Jan 2011, 16:51 UTC | reply to this comment | That means two things:
once : Tesla was right
second : quantum theories have hidden factor and are not based on probability |
| Comment #6.1 by: Anony-mouse on 23 Jan 2011, 18:29 GMT | uf, "second" is particularly exciting!!!! |
| Comment #6.2 by: Kedz on 04 May 2011, 15:39 GMT | Maybe just maybe because all we think we know ie:Phycists and the like can be put on the head of a needle collectively speaking. The abundance of arrogance exceeds the known by a factor of 10 to the 1,000,000.
Fact: Consciousness is attached to all aspects of the Universe Proven thru non-locality and Einstien's general field theories, secondly the Universe is Electric not Fussion (ala big bang theory) all the nebula can be modeled and simulated with dark plasma and reacts to the laws of electrical conduction. BUT And it is a very LARGE but.... The Egos and budgets given to Cosmologists and Astro Phycists not to mention Quantum Physicists is in the Billions of dollars and they have found nothing but bad theoretical obfuscation in aligning any theorms to remotely give with reality. They know not one spec about dark matter and have to put a variable in all equations to resemble a fix to this fact. The fudge factor is actually everything the Hubble telescope can see is then cubed and thrown into there computations to resemble a theory... Then when given other material outside their discipline they do not embrace a breakthrough they ridicule it because it did not come out of their work... Elitist mentality has been there for centuries... So here we sit listen to these well intention egomaniacs that at the end of the day do not want to lose their funding ....
ie: NO JOB man .... Science is not science anymore it is your career and a paycheck to pay for your kids education... MMmmm seems we have a rather large fly in the ointment of reality that will intrinsically stop progress at every turn for these reasons.
Sad facts but true none the less... |
| Comment #7 by: Toni on 02 May 2011, 03:37 UTC | reply to this comment | Couldn't it be something as familiar and as simple as UV light?
http://www.natural-health-home-remedies.com/radiation.html |
| Comment #8 by: invertedpentagramon$1 on 02 May 2011, 11:48 UTC | reply to this comment | the human body contains radioactive elements so that might mean we will mutate maybe at the dna level? |
| Comment #9 by: GoGo on 02 May 2011, 22:01 UTC | reply to this comment | Earth Orbit:
Aphelion 152,098,232 km
Perihelion 147,098,290 km
Mars Orbit:
Aphelion 249,209,300 km
Perihelion 206,669,000 km
They should try to put samples in space probes and then they will get more accurate data. |
| Comment #10 by: jack off on 03 May 2011, 23:41 UTC | reply to this comment | Heat is also a radiant form of energy is it possible that we are essentially fighting fire with fire or in this case radiation with radiation...? The colder it is the more efficient electricity flows through a wire. The warmer it is the more loss. Thinking of radioactive material as a battery like stored charge it would make since that summer sun would wear on it more as it does on say a car battery. It is possible that we just may be looking at this wrong while I would have to say we know little to nothing about aether other then it's supposed to be there but yet it remains nearly undetectable.
It is of my belief that it is not possible to maintain an exact pressure within a vacuum thus the pressure differences are like energy potentials and it is this that has created this whole universe waves of energy from the potentials crashing into each other creating matter from sheer energy technically speaking energy is our god and the aether is the air or substance within that vacuum responsible for creating the building blocks of matter...
Why don't they try to vacuum some space air and try to study it back on earth I have never seen this test conducted yet... |
| Comment #11 by: goosegab11 on 04 May 2011, 10:50 UTC | reply to this comment | Maybe It's the aluminium from chemtrails reflecting the sun rays back?This is they're intention. To cause Destruction....... |
| Comment #12 by: Kedz on 04 May 2011, 16:09 UTC | reply to this comment | Maybe just maybe because all we think we know ie:Phycists and the like can be put on the head of a needle collectively speaking. The abundance of arrogance exceeds the known by a factor of 10 to the 1,000,000.
Fact: Consciousness is attached to all aspects of the Universe Proven thru non-locality and Einstien's general field theories, secondly the Universe is Electric not Fussion (ala big bang theory) all the nebula can be modeled and simulated with dark plasma and reacts to the laws of electrical conduction. BUT And it is a very LARGE but.... The Egos and budgets given to Cosmologists and Astro Phycists not to mention Quantum Physicists is in the Billions of dollars and they have found nothing but bad theoretical obfuscation in aligning any theorms to remotely give with reality. They know not one spec about dark matter and have to put a variable in all equations to resemble a fix to this fact. The fudge factor is actually everything the Hubble telescope can see is then cubed and thrown into there computations to resemble a theory... Then when given other material outside their discipline they do not embrace a breakthrough they ridicule it because it did not come out of their work... Elitist mentality has been there for centuries... So here we sit listen to these well intention egomaniacs that at the end of the day do not want to lose their funding ....
ie: NO JOB man .... Science is not science anymore it is your career and a paycheck to pay for your kids education... MMmmm seems we have a rather large fly in the ointment of reality that will intrinsically stop progress at every turn for these reasons.
Sad facts but true none the less... |
| Comment #13 by: Spiral Rabbit on 06 May 2011, 17:22 UTC | reply to this comment | Please. People. nice try with the 6000 year thing, but note that the scientists said "minute", which means TINY discrepancies. Like nanoseconds and such. and btw, the earth is estimated to be 4.5 BILLION years old, NOT 60 million. Where do you get your facts? |
| Comment #14 by: Edgar on 10 May 2011, 05:33 UTC | reply to this comment | i pray to the universe that our race adopts this moment to accept our unknowns.
the sun is not a thero-nuclear reactor. nuclear fusion just happens to be a byproduct of a hot plasma environment.
the next logical question should be:
WHY is the sun now producing this type of radiation? |
| Comment #15 by: katesisco on 16 May 2011, 16:19 UTC | reply to this comment | Actually, to M Mathis, decreasing spin allows fewer impacts equaling superconductivity on the quantum level.
Is this the missing cause for the 50 myo extinction events? You betcha.
Does this change the geologic history? No, the rocks still tell the truth, just the date changes.
Ancient Egyptian pre history is interesting due to Nun the Abyss of Nothingness which is parted by the Creative Principle Atun who breathed out Ma at, breathed in and out, created Shu which is space and Tefnut which is moisture. It might just be a coincidence that our two known galactic forms produce AIR and MOISTURE but I doubt it.
For D Bohm this would be the Implicate Order. For S W Carey this would be vindication. For lazy scientists this is a spur. |
| Comment #16 by: Bev on 17 May 2011, 20:43 UTC | reply to this comment | If there is an interaction between the Sun and radioactive materials - researchers should re-focus their research to include Japan. |
| Comment #17 by: rollinshultz on 24 Jul 2011, 18:31 UTC | reply to this comment | Another fine tuning mechanism?
I can see this becoming another in the list of factors, in which if it was just higher we could not have life in the galaxy and if it was just a little lower we would have the same result. |
| Comment #18 by: 3seas on 21 Aug 2011, 12:25 UTC | reply to this comment | We're spinning downing into a black hole at the center of our universe, like water going down the drain. As we do so, physics changes....simple really...but it can make you dizzy. |
| Comment #19 by: cmb on 21 Nov 2011, 22:17 UTC | reply to this comment | I don't think this is happening at all. I think it's creationist claptrap. Changes in radioactive decay have been a creationist excuse for decades.
Show me the data. |
| Comment #20 by: cybervigilante on 21 Dec 2011, 04:33 UTC | reply to this comment | Isn't much of quantum physics dependent on the totally random nature of radioactive decay? But now it's not random. Not to mention that we have no idea what dark matter and energy is. Then some people think, with all this ignorance, that science proves there is no such thing as the paranormal, or the sense of people staring at you.
Science knows a lot, and does a lot, and is to be respected - but they may have only scratched the surface. |
| Comment #21 by: Amaterasu Solar on 29 Feb 2012, 10:24 UTC | reply to this comment | Perhaps it is not a particle effect but a field effect. I mean... Fields are not particles. Why do They presume a particle? | |
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