Posted on 08/29/2008 9:29:09 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Bump.
Sounds like a potential way to screw with someone else’s nuclear armory while it sits in a bunker.
hmmmmmmm......
Yup. And you know what else? It's just hard to beat a good hamburger, but cornbread crumbled up in a glass of cold buttermilk is mighty good eats if you don't want to go out.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for the post!
There’s a fairly easy way to test this: use the power telemetry data from the Voyager, Pioneer, Galileo, Cassini, and other spacecraft, which are all essentially powered by nuclear decay. See if the decay rate shows unexpected changes as the vehicles moved further from the Earth.
Pinging some of the more knowledgeable and interesting Freepers who might be able to shed some light on this subject.
I'm thinking the %change in decay rate they're seeing is out there a few decimal places. lol
And the best way to screw with someone else's armory is still the same as it always has been - nuke it.
HOORAY!
Fine structure constant being influenced?
Another idea is that the effect is caused by some kind of interaction with the neutrino flux from the suns interior...
On another note;
This makes us wonder again, about how high levels of neutrino bombardment, along with high gamma radiation, may possibly have been in the past significant drivers or factors of evolutionary changes?
Pure speculation on my part, of course. And not my own original idea or pondering, either.
Great idea for testing this hypothesis!
Since the fine structure constant is computed from the values of the electric charge, Planck's constant, and the speed of light, one or more of these would have to be changing with distance from the sun if this theory were true.
If the speed of light were changing with distance from the sun it would produce a shift in the observed positions of stars that would have been noticed already.
What it seems to be saying is that the Sun has incredible influence on even the smallest of particles and mechanisms that is measurable since it changes with distance from the sun. Besides just lighting the planet it may influence everything in subtle ways. Who knows, might even affect the climate.
What a great post! At this moment I can feel brain cells being activated from a 30 year old unused undergradute Chemistry major. I bookmarked this one.
This is more evidence that goes with what we knew for years. The big thing is it puts another nail in the coffin of those who stand by the faulty dating of rocks and organic material. Long story short, this is another plus for the side that supports the new earth philosophy as apposed to the billions and billions of years the old earth theorists believe in.
Seems pretty easy to test, have 2 different labs switch methods and do the test the same time they did the previous year.
I immediately wondered if proximity to the sun somehow affected their test equipment rather than the materials themselves.
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