On the similarity of 239Pu α-activity histograms when the angular velocities of the Earth diurnal rotation, orbital movement and rotation of collimators are equalized

• Published in: Astrophysics and space science 2016, Vol.361 (1)
• Main Authors: Shnoll, S. E., Rubinstein, I. A., Shapovalov, S. N., Tolokonnikova, A. A., Shlektaryov, V. A., Kolombet, V. A., Kondrashova, M. N.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Astrobiology; Astronomy; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Cosmology; Observations and Techniques; Original Article; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Space Exploration and Astronautics; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics
• ISSN: 0004-640X; 1572-946X
• DOI: 10.1007/s10509-015-2618-7

It was shown earlier that the persistent “scatter” of results of measurements of any nature is determined by the diurnal and orbital movement of the Earth. The movement is accompanied by “macroscopic fluctuations” (MF)—regular, periodic changes in the shape of histograms, spectra of fluctuation amplitudes of the measured parameters. There are two near-daily periods (“sidereal”, 1436 min; and “solar”, 1440 min) and three yearly ones (“calendar”, 365 average solar days; “tropical”, 365 days 5 h and 48 min; and “sidereal”, 365 days 6 h and 9 min). This periodicity was explained by the objects whose parameters are measured passing through the same spatial-temporal heterogeneities as the Earth rotates and shifts along its orbit. The shape of histograms constructed for a process that takes place on the Earth is, therefore, dependent on many a cosmo-physical factor: position of the object examined toward the Sun, “immobile stars” and equinoctial lines; height of the Moon and Sun above the horizon; relative positions of the Moon, Earth and Sun; relative directions of the orbital and diurnal rotation of the Earth; vectors of the beams (e.g., α -particle or photon beams) in relation to the Earth axis. This multitude of cosmo-physical factors, which the shape of histograms depends upon, was revealed in the comparative studies of various vectorized processes, positioned differently to each other and measured on different time scales. Reproducibility of the periods: daily, yearly, lunar etc.—means that heterogeneity and anisotropy of the space-time continuum is stable. The Earth rotates about its axis and moves around the Sun along an invariable “fractal coastline of the Universe”. Fractality manifests itself in the similarity of histograms constructed on the intervals from milliseconds to many hours. Bearing in mind all the aforesaid, the objective of the present work was to check the supposition that in the daily and yearly cycles, histograms would be similar if the angular velocities of the processes measured are equalized and common reference points are defined. The objective was stimulated by M.N. Kondrashova’s assumption on the correspondence of biological effects at different times of the day and in different seasons (the “MNK effect”).