The Faces of Time with Simon Shnoll

First published: 2020

Brief summary

CRI blog post on Simon Shnoll’s work on patterns in radioactive decay histograms and reported daily, monthly and annual similarities.

Article

Even before Simon Shnoll gave this video interview in 2003, I was fortunate to visit him in Pushchino at the Biophysics laboratory of Russian Academy of Science in 1996. I was very interested in their work and they were also interested in mine.

They had found that radioactive Plutonium decay was not random as is generally believed. By recording counts of the number of decays each minute (for 18 years at the time that I visited) they studied it for patterns. By collecting an hour of measurements they could make a histogram with 60 values. Histograms in adjacent hours were more similar than ones some hours later. And then after 24 hours they became more similar again.

They found that after a day, a month and a year the histograms became more similar. So clearly the Earth, Sun and Moon played some part in this.

I proposed that there should also be 3 and 6 minute cycles in the decay but they had not found them. Using their data, I showed that these two cycles existed and that the periods were not absolutely stable but fluctuated about by about 5%. Natalia Udaltsova went through the entire history of the records and found the 3 and 6 minute cycles clearly present throughout.

Additional summary

The remainder describes a seminar in Pushchino, later confirmation claims about annual cycles in radioactive decay, and links to Shnoll video material and discussions.

Source details and credits

• Source / publisher: CRI Blog / Ray Tomes
• Source type: Blog post
• URL type: WWW
• Credits: CRI Blog / Ray Tomes
• URL: https://cyclesresearchinstitute.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/the-faces-of-time-with-simon-shnoll/