On a sunny day (Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:39:24 -0700 (PDT)) it happened YKhan
wrote in
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On Aug 30, 5:05 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:51:25 -0400) it happened Yousuf Khan
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Slashdot | Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance

Very interesting.
I could envisision neutrinos knocking stuff lose...

http://science.slashdot.org/article..../08/29/1227239
http://arxivblog.com/?p=596
http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3283

Well, don't they have big vats of liquid deep down in mines that don't
seem to get knocked loose so often?

Sure, but with neutrinos, there are so many of them in every cubic
centimeter.
Quote from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino:
'more than 50 trillion solar electron neutrinos pass through the human body every second'
'For typical neutrinos produced in the sun (with energies of a few MeV), it would take approximately one light year (~1016 m) of lead to block half of them.'



Anyways, this is another nail in the coffin for those physicists who
insist that the laws of physics aren't affected by our local
environment, and therefore is the same all across the universe.

Yousuf Khan

The laws are the same perhaps, but the neutrino should perhaps be a parameter in the equation.

Just makes me wonder if there would be _no_ decay without neutrinos :-)