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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote2010-09-03 07:16 am
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"close your eyes and take my hand / hold your breath as long as you can"

Department of Extremely Interesting Physics News: researchers have found that the rate of radioactive decays is not a constant, but varies depending on the solar weather, as well as Earth's distance from the sun. Likely culprit is solar neutrinos. (via)

Huh, I say.

---L.

[identity profile] packbat.livejournal.com 2010-09-04 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Saw that on StarDestroyer.net (http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=144637)! It's really interesting if true, but there's a number of other papers not showing any such effect (http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=3389541#p3389541), so it seems possible an environmental factor is at fault.