he conclusion belongs to a new investigation, which was carried out by experts at the Purdue University and the Stanford University.
The problem with the result is that the answer the team provides for this unexpected mystery appears to be raising other questions in return.
According to the physicists in the new research, it could even be that the Sun is exerting its influence on radioactive matter through an elementary particle that has never been detected before.
“That would be truly remarkable,” explains Stanford professor emeritus of applied physics and solar expert Peter Sturrock. He was a part of the group that conducted the work..
According to established theories, the decay of a specific radioactive material is a constant. This idea is used to determine what radiation doses to give to cancer patients, as well as to calculate the age of samples using carbon-14.
Researchers at the Purdue University now contest the idea that the constant exist, basing their claim on a series of experiments which show the existence of disagreements in the measured decay rates of various radioactive isotopes.
The new data, proposed by Purdue physics professor Ephraim Fischbach, was tested and confirmed by teams at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Federal Physical and Technical Institute, in Germany,
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