[time-nuts] radioactive decay rates change?

Bill Hawkins bill at iaxs.net
Mon Aug 23 22:33:05 UTC 2010


If there were, we'd have noticed it by now - unless all reference
clocks are affected the same way. Then you'd have the Tree in the
Forest syndrome.

The article had some numbers in it, but none of them were the
amplitude of the change. They also didn't say if the effect was
cumulative or sinusoidal. Perhaps they don't train reporters to
ask good questions anymore.

Bill Hawkins


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http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html

"It's a mystery that presented itself unexpectedly: The radioactive 
decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on Earth seemed 
to be influenced by activities inside the sun, 93 million miles away."

Any implication for CS clocks?

-- 

Chris w0ep




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