Wobbly Universe

In a paper with the title Experiments with rotating collimators cutting out pencil of α-particles at radioactive decay of 239Pu evidence sharp anisotropy of space, S. E. Shnoll, I.A.Rubinshtejn, K. I. Zenchenko, V.A.Shlekhtarev, A.V.Kaminsky, A.A.Konradov and N.V.Udaltsova report on their continuing physics discoveries which in my (not so humble) opinion shows up serious thinking errors in modern physics.

The anisotropy of space referred to in the title means that the properties of space are not the same in all directions. There have been a number of reports in recent years that question the isotropy of space, but this paper reports on results in the laboratory on Earth that clearly show effects in a reproducible form.

The experiment shows that the alpha particles coming out when radioactive plutonium decays do not come out equally often in all directions. The direction is influenced by the relative orientation of the laboratory apparatus to each of the Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the distant Stars or Galaxies. This result is not expected in standard physics and suggests that things are not as random in quantum events as they are believed to be.

Before looking at the exact nature of this experiment it is worth first reviewing the experiments that lead the researchers to look at things in this way.

I met the authors of this paper in Pushchino and elsewhere in Russia in the mid-1990s when I visited their laboratory to find out more about their work and was also invited to give a seminar on my Harmonics Theory. Simon Shnol is the head of the Biophysics Laboratory at Pushchino. Alexander Konradov was at Moscow University and unfortunately died several years ago. Natalia Udaltsova moved from Pushchino to California about a decade ago. I will mention some of my own work related to these experiments which was confirmed by Dr Udalsova later on. Unfortunately the English speaking world has not taken sufficient notice of these important Russian results.

By the mid 1990's, the Biophysics laboratory had already established some important findings. Their work may be seen as a continuation of the work of Giorgio Piccardi who found that certain chemical tests do not behave the same all the time but vary with cosmological factors. There is a long tradition of investigating Cosmological factors in Russia where A Chizhevsky was an important pioneer. The Russians have found that not just a few chemical and biological factors are affected by cosmological configurations, but that indeed all biological, chemical and physical measurements are subject to fluctuations and that these fluctuations have a common cosmological origin.

In a typical experiment, the Pushchino Biophysics laboratory takes regular measurements of the rate of decay of a Plutonium sample. From a series of consecutive measurements they make a histogram. Naturally this histogram obeys the laws of statistics of a Poisson distribution for an expected set of random events. However there is something else going on that is not random. When the histograms are compared to other histograms taken at the same place at different times, it is found that more similar histograms result after 24 hours, after 27 days and after 365 days. Careful measurements show that there is similarity after both 1440 minutes (exactly 24 hours) and also after 1436 minutes. These two periods are the periods of the Earth's rotation relative to the Sun and to the distant stars and galaxies. The other periods show that the Sun and Moon configuration relative to the earth is important.

Many physicists do not want to know about or acknowledge such results because they might be seen as giving support to astrology which to them is a truly shocking thing to have to concede. Let me make it clear that these are real physics results and that supporting astrology is not the motive.

In these latest tests, the physicists decided to slowly rotate their apparatus relative to the Earth so that the rotation of the earth was cancelled out. When they did that the 24 hour period of similarity in histograms disappeared. Then they tested with the apparatus rotating 3 times per day in the same direction as the earth. This resulted in similar histograms every 359 and 360 minutes, being 1/4 of the original 1436 and 1440 minutes. The reason for this being 1/4 with 3 rotations per day is that the Earth's actual rotation is also occurring so that the apparatus is really rotating 4 times per day relative to the stars.

Quite clearly the experiments show that atomic phenomena are sensitive to the inertial frame of the universe and also to the direction of the Sun and Moon in the sky. There is no means for these things to be communicated to atomic phenomena in standard physics.

However when the Wave Structure of Matter (WSM) is understood as all particles being composed of real standing waves in space, then the results make a lot of sense. If particles are standing waves in a tensile medium then the fabric of space is vibrating around all particles, and the direction of that vibration at any location is transverse to the radial direction. Wherever there is a massive concentration of particles such as in the Sun, then the combined effect of all the particles leads to space vibrating in the tangential direction relative to the Sun. This vibration directly leads to the equations of General Relativity and explains the bending of light by the gravity of the Sun without any need for non-Euclidean geometry. It also leads to the expectation that rotating objects such as the earth will notice variations in the vibration from all cosmological sources.