[Chaos-l] Solar activity changes nuclear decay rates on Earth!

[Michael Hrivnak]

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html

This is a very exciting discovery that is almost certainly a huge
game-changer for nuclear physics.  The short of it is that variations
in the Sun's activity change the rate at which radioactive elements
decay on Earth! AND, significant changes in the decay rate have been
observed more than a day BEFORE a major solar flare. Nobody has any
idea how this is happening, which is very exciting.

Furthermore, they have identified a periodic change in the decay rates
that is explained by the rotation of the Sun, but is slightly slower
than the observed rotation speed of the Sun. That suggests that the
Sun's core is rotating more slowly than the exterior, and I think this
is the first time we've had a way to measure that.

Michael