Dear Yousuf Khan:

On Sep 3, 10:50*am, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 03/09/2010 12:03 PM,dlzcwrote:
On Sep 2, 8:35 pm, Yousuf *wrote:
On 9/2/2010 10:32 PM,dlzcwrote:
Wonder if the purported variation of radioactive
isotopes is associated too...

I doubt it, it would have more to do with neutrinos
from the Sun.

The same difference in atomic decay rates is present
northern to sourthern hemisphere too. *God, I hope its
not a "transfer standard" problem...

What's a "transfer standard" problem?

In metrology, you have to make a "duplicate" of some standard
measurement, and transfer it to the instruments you actually use to
make measurements ("Paris" to Austrailia, say). Then you check and
make sure they (the instrument and the transfer standard) agree
periodically, and update your transfer standard periodically as well.

If one "hemisphere" has different measurements for "everything", they
may simply have a metrology problem, and no new physics is required.

This sort of problem is why the historical measurements of c were all
over the place (at some scales), for example.

Be a shame if it were that simple. I think we'd need to swap
researchers, next.

David A. Smith