Maybe the mysterious particles are plunging into the globe

If the sun actually releases mysterious particles to the earth, we will have to rewrite the textbooks for students.

Discovery said that in the past few years scientists from Stanford University and Purdue University in the United States have noticed a strange phenomenon: The decay rate of radioactive elements is changing . This phenomenon is strange because textbooks have always taught high school students that the rate of decay of radioactive elements is constant.

The team's explanation may surprise many people. They think it is possible that the sun is emitting particles that humans never knew. It is these mysterious particles that change the speed of radioactive decay.

Many areas of science depend on the speed of radioactive decay. For example, to date the antiquities, archaeologists measure the radioactive isotope carbon (C) 14 in the sample. The half-life of C14 is 5,730 years, meaning that after every 5,730 years, the amount of C14 in the specimen is only half. After comparing the C14 ratio in the artifacts and the surrounding environment, the age of antiquities will be determined.

But if scientists prove that the rate of radioactive decay is no longer constant, archaeologists will be embarrassed when determining the age of antiquities.

According to scientists, there is only one answer for changing the rate of radioactive decay. The earth comes closest to the sun during the year when the northern hemisphere experiences winter. So it is possible that the distance between the sun and the earth changes the decay rate.

Jere Jenkins, a Purdue University nuclear expert, found that the decay rate of the Mg 54 element fell just before a big explosion appeared on the sun. After each explosion, countless particles carrying charge from the sun will follow the storm from flying towards the earth.

So does the sun affect Jenkins' Mg 54? If the answer is ' yes ', surely something from the sun has come to earth and interacted with Mg 54.

In one trial, Professor Peter Sturrock of Stanford University found that after 33 days the rate of radioactive decay changed once . Sturrock said, the sun's core also rotated for 33 days. The solar core is the source of neutrino production - elementary particles do not carry electric charge - through nuclear reactions.

If neutrinos are the culprit causing the speed of radioactive decay to change, the scientific world on earth has misunderstood the nature of neutrinos. So far, textbooks have always asserted that neutrino particles have very weak interactions. But if the neutrino is not the culprit, it is possible that the sun is coming down to the planet where humans do not know.