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Date sent: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:03:10 -0400
Subject: Evidence for correlations between nuclear decay rates
and
Earth-Sun distance
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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