--- MJ wrote: > Evidence for correlations between nuclear decay rates and Earth-Sun distance
> Some implications of these results are 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. This is interesting, but I would counter that they got the determination of actual proximate cause, and the reasoning behind it partially, or completely, wrong (i.e. the "distance" part of the title seems correct; but they have a problem with internal logic and consistency)... ...since it is probably NOT due to variation is solar radiation at all (due to distance per se), unless the seasonal component is much more strongly correlated than has been indicated. If you consider this paper alongside the Barker findings of vastly increased decay rates in some minerals in a HV electric field, then the culprit for both points to some version of an electrogravity theory. IOW -the importance of "distance" relates to how electrogravity interacts with unstable nuclei and NOT at all related to solar insolation. Horace might want to take a look at the details of how this fits into his theory. Jones
