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Re: [Phys-l] Nuclear decays depend on solar distance?


On Aug 30, 2008, at 7:07 PM, LaMontagne, Bob wrote:

The obvious explanation would seem to be that their apparatus is picking up more than just the decay of Si and Ra - some similar particles related to solar wind.

That hypothesis is reasonable. But such correlation would also be seen in a control experiment. Unfortunately, nothing is said about a detector that was probably used to keep track of the background.

Ludwik Kowalski, a retired physics teacher
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