Russian physicist Simon Shnoll found that the duration of basic molecular reactions both biological and chemical showed cyclic anomalies which appeared to correlate with planetary cycles.
Measurements of radioactive decay showed similar patterns, seemingly affected by even solar activity.
Shnoll repeatedly performed the same experiments involving first enzyme reactions and then purely chemical reactions and timed the duration of the reaction. He then moved on to radioactive decay, counting the numbers of emissions within a given time period and plotting the results on a series of charts.
The charts are expected show some standard bell-type curve with added ‘noise’ caused by instrument inaccuracies or other random influences.
Instead, he found that the charts showed fine grained patterns in the noise that did not disappear even when many measurements were taken and displayed an odd ‘periodicity’ which suggests that they are affected somehow by planetary and lunar motions.
A typical experimental result for exam scores or some such is shown right, with the scores represented by the grey bars fitting more or less to a nice bell shaped curve. The fit is not exact but increasing the number of measurements will result in a closer and closer match to the curved line the more measurements are taken.
Measurements of radioactive decay made by Schnoll produced the curve shown right, which is the result of measuring the number of radioactive pulses in 6 second intervals. 1000 such intervals were measured and the number of pulses plotted on the chart. The peak in the middle represents an average of 90 pulses every 6 seconds.
The experiment was repeated 15 times and at each stage cumulative values were plotted showing the total number of pulses per 6 second interval.
In this chart, the lowest curve is the single curve in chart 1 above and the next highest curve is the result from measuring 2000 intervals etc.
This result is surprising as the expectation is that a larger sample size would lead to the ‘noise’ in chart 1 averaging out to form a smoother, more bell shaped curve. Although the overall shape is bell-like, the pattern of noise does not smooth out but instead becomes more pronounced! This suggests that it is not random and not noise but that there is some ‘meaning’ in the data; there is some ’cause’ here to be investigated.
Charts of consecutive time intervals show remarkable patterns of similarity as seen here.
Time intervals 1 and 2 are very similar in shape but so are those from time intervals 7 and 12 (30 seconds apart).
The team developed an algorithm to measure the ‘similarity’ of the charts and applied it to experiments performed over several days. Here we see that measurement patterns remain similar for a few hours before losing their resemblance to each other but then at the 24 hour mark there is renewal of similarity.
The experiment continued and as we see here the patterns recurred after 27 days. Fluctuations that were previously supposed to be random are in fact cyclic and correlate to the spinning of the Earth and orbit of the moon (sidereal month).
Continuing with measurements of radioactive decay the scientists were able to show that the decay rate patterns also recurred on a yearly cycle, suggesting now that they are somehow affected by the orbit of the Earth around the sun.
Measurements made at independent measuring stations at the same time showed similar patterns to each other.
Completely different processes still resulted in similar looking graphs.
Here we see the measurements from the radioactive decay experiments compared with those from the rate of reaction of the chemical dichlorophenolindophenol.
Chemical reactions were measured over a period of 30 years.
This chart shows the mean square amplitude of the data scatter (dotted line) and the Wolf number, a measure of solar activity, (solid line). The two are clearly correlated showing that high solar activity is associated with more ‘certainty’ in the rate of chemical reactions.
Quantum physics in trouble?
It is clear from the comments at the bottom of the paper that scientists will seek for the solution in some quantum effect or other.
Radioactive decay is described as a ‘random process’: “It is demonstrated that the fine structures of histograms for quite diverse random processes (physical, chemical, biological, etc.) are similar and vary in sympathy.” However, a ‘random process’ is not in any way a physical process and nor is it a description of a generative mechanism.
Describing events as ‘random’ is a characterisation of a statistical outcome pattern and not a description of a causal chain. The problem that we now have is that the outcome pattern of the radioactive decay is not in fact random and does not conform to a Poisson or any other ‘random’ distribution.
Ouch! We don’t have a physical mechanism for randomness and now we don’t even have a random outcome! There is nothing about radioactive decay that is in fact ‘random’! If a process is to be characterised solely by a statistical outcome pattern and that process no longer displays such a pattern then what can we even say at all about such a process?
The physics of quantum mechanics tried to replace causal determinism with random indeterminism, with the ‘order’ in the universe arising from a statistical aggregate of multiple random events. We now have a problem in that a process assumed to be random is not in fact random and need to address that fact.
One solution is to assume that there is some causal influence that can affect the processes at the heart of physics that were once assumed to be ‘random’. However, this means ditching the idea of quantum wave function as the basis of physics an finally admitting that either God does not in fact play dice or that the dice are extremely biased and somehow cognisant of the motions of the sun and moon.
We have a return to some deterministic process at the heart of reality which somehow affects (mechanism not described) the randomness (mechanism not described) of quantum mechanics which in turn forms statistical aggregates to again give the semblance of a deterministic universe.
This is bonkers!
A solution from vortex physics
The physics of Konstantin Meyl formulates all particles as existing at the centre of an extended field vortex which extends beyond the measured ‘radius’. This is true of electrons, atoms, photons and neutrinos and by extension, planets and stars.
A proposed mechanism for radioactive decay is that a barely stable atom will hold together until a solar neutrino (or other energetic particle) passes close enough for its surrounding vortex field to destabilise the atom and lead to a particle being emitted.
Neutrino steams come from the sun and also distant galaxies. Such streams exist within the vortex field of our solar system, which itself consists of complex wave patterns, vortices, filaments and eddies similar to those seen in a smooth flowing river.
The cyclic movements of the planets and moons within this system are concomitant with such eddies, which act to focus and direct the neutrino streams in such a way as to produce the effects measured by Shnoll and his team. Solar neutrinos are focussed somewhat by the moon to produce variations in the intensity of the neutrino stream and this in turn leads to an increase in the rate of radioactive decay.
We can now see why the Shnoll effect seems to be ‘universal’, to span so many different processes. The vortex streams within the solar system including neutrinos and possibly other particles provide an omnipresent source of energy that ebbs and flows with the motions of the moon, planets and maybe objects even further away.
According to Meyl, there exist streams of neutrinos between galaxies and between stars in the same galaxy, providing attractive forces by means of resonance and giving an alternative to ‘dark matter’ for the solution to the expansion problem. If this is true then it would not be so surprising if even very distant events were somehow registered in the activities on Earth, whether they be of a physical, chemical or biological nature.
Related pages: ESP and the Shnoll effect Giorgio Piccardi
References:
Realization of discrete states during fluctuations in macroscopic
processes
S E Shnoll, V A Kolombet, E V Pozharski|¯, T A Zenchenko, I M Zvereva, A A Konradov
https://cyclesresearchinstitute.org/pdf/cycles-physics/ufn9810d.pdf
New Paradigm for Mankind: Cosmo-physical Factors in the small
A video presentation of the Shnoll Effect.
https://youtu.be/wkDY_8HjMfk?t=392