Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun

Posted by timothy on from the action-at-a-distance dept.

quax writes "In school you probably learned that the decay rate of radioactive matter is solely determined by the halftime specific to the element. There is no environmental factor that can somehow tweak this process. At least there shouldn't be. Now a second study confirmed previous findings that the decay rate of some elements seems to be under the subtle and mysterious influence of the sun. As of now there is no theoretical explanation for this strange effect buried in the decay rate data."

1 of 267 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cue the young earth creationists by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sure they do, but their negative numbers only go to -3988 (skipping 0 of course).