{"id":6377,"date":"2010-08-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6377"},"modified":"2010-08-25T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T08:00:00","slug":"strange-things-done-neath-the-midnight-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6377","title":{"rendered":"Strange Things Done &#039;neath the Midnight Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.symmetrymagazine.org\/breaking\/2010\/08\/23\/the-strange-case-of-solar-flares-and-radioactive-elements\/\">The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the researchers pored through published data on specific isotopes, they found disagreement in the measured decay rates \u2013 odd for supposed physical constants.<\/p>\n<p>Checking data collected at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute in Germany, they came across something even more surprising: long-term observation of the decay rate of silicon-32 and radium-226 seemed to show a small seasonal variation. The decay rate was ever so slightly faster in winter than in summer.<\/p>\n<p>Was this fluctuation real, or was it merely a glitch in the equipment used to measure the decay, induced by the change of seasons, with the accompanying changes in temperature and humidity?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone thought it must be due to experimental mistakes, because we\u2019re all brought up to believe that decay rates are constant,\u201d Sturrock said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements As the researchers pored through published data on specific isotopes, they found disagreement in the measured decay rates \u2013 odd for supposed physical constants. Checking data collected at Brookhaven National Laboratory &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}