Some researchers have suggested that neutron radiation is liable of a wrong radiocarbon dating, while proton radiation is responsible of the Shroud body image formation. On the other hand, no plausible physical reason has been proposed to explain the radiation source origin, and its effects on the linen fibres. However, some recent studies, carried out by the authors at the Laboratory of Fracture Mechanics of the Politecnico di Torino, found that it is possible to generate neutron emissions from very brittle rock specimens in compression through piezonuclear reaction processes. Neutron flux variations, in correspondence to seismic activity, should be a result of piezonuclear reactions. Considering also the Earth’s crust, in addition to cosmic rays, as being a relevant source of neutron flux variations, other researchers measured a neutron flux exceeding the background by three orders of magnitude in correspondence to seismic activity and rather appreciable earthquakes (4th Richter’s degree). In this work, the authors consider the possibility that neutron emissions by earthquake could have induced the image formation on Shroud linen fibres, trough thermal neutron capture on nitrogen nuclei, and provided a wrong radiocarbon dating due to an increment in C, 14, 6, content.

Is the Shroud of Turin in relation to the Old Jerusalem historical earthquake? / Carpinteri, Alberto; Lacidogna, Giuseppe; Borla, Oscar. - ELETTRONICO. - (2013), p. 93. (Intervento presentato al convegno XXI Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata tenutosi a Torino nel 17-20 Settembre 2013).

Is the Shroud of Turin in relation to the Old Jerusalem historical earthquake?

CARPINTERI, Alberto;LACIDOGNA, GIUSEPPE;BORLA, OSCAR
2013

Abstract

Some researchers have suggested that neutron radiation is liable of a wrong radiocarbon dating, while proton radiation is responsible of the Shroud body image formation. On the other hand, no plausible physical reason has been proposed to explain the radiation source origin, and its effects on the linen fibres. However, some recent studies, carried out by the authors at the Laboratory of Fracture Mechanics of the Politecnico di Torino, found that it is possible to generate neutron emissions from very brittle rock specimens in compression through piezonuclear reaction processes. Neutron flux variations, in correspondence to seismic activity, should be a result of piezonuclear reactions. Considering also the Earth’s crust, in addition to cosmic rays, as being a relevant source of neutron flux variations, other researchers measured a neutron flux exceeding the background by three orders of magnitude in correspondence to seismic activity and rather appreciable earthquakes (4th Richter’s degree). In this work, the authors consider the possibility that neutron emissions by earthquake could have induced the image formation on Shroud linen fibres, trough thermal neutron capture on nitrogen nuclei, and provided a wrong radiocarbon dating due to an increment in C, 14, 6, content.
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