Strange, Unexplained Solar Influence Over Earth's Radioactive Material Could Herald Solar Flares
Gigantic Solar Flare On August 9, 2011 at 3:48 a.m. EDT, the sun emitted an Earth-directed X6.9 flare, as measured by the NOAA GOES satellite. These gigantic bursts of radiation can disrupt the atmosphere and interfere with GPS and communications signals. New research shows that strange solar interactions with radioactive particles on Earth could be used as an early warning system for flares like this one. NASA A mystifying trick of the sun, inappropriately interfering with particles on Earth, could be used as an early-warning system for solar flares, a new study says. With enough warning, satellites, telecommunications infrastructure and even orbiting astronauts can take cover from our star's worst radioactive eruptions. This all goes back to 2006, when physicists at Purdue, Stanford and other places noticed something that at first defied physical explanation: Radioactive elements were changing their decay rates. This flew in the face of long-accepted physics theory, which...