[ RadSafe ] There's nothing you can do to hurry radioactive decay, the textbooks will tell you, but New Scientist meets a physicist who begs to differ

[John Jacobus]

Fred,
Actually, we may have been dimming the sun for
decades.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/about.html
The effects may have been masking global warming.

I saw the show and it was worth it.

--- Fred Dawson <fd003f0606 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> There's nothing you can do to hurry radioactive
> decay, the textbooks will 
> tell you, but New Scientist meets a physicist who
> begs to differ
>
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19225741.100-halflife-heresy-accelerating-radioactive-decay.html
> 
> FOR ALL its eureka moments, science has taught us
> many unpalatable lessons 
> about what we are powerless to do. We can't dim the
> sun to remedy droughts 
> or global warming.  . . .

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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower  

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com

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