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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