Fluctuations in measured radioactive decay rates inside a modified Faraday cage: Correlations with space weather.

For several years, reports have been published about fluctuations in measured radioactive decay time-series and in some instances linked to astrophysical as well as classical environmental influences. Anomalous behaviors of radioactive decay measurement and measurement of capacitance inside and outside a modified Faraday cage were documented by our group in previous work. In the present report, we present an in-depth analysis of our measurement with regard to possible correlations with space weather, i.e. the geomagnetic activity (GMA) and cosmic-ray activity (CRA). Our analysis revealed that the decay and capacitance time-series are statistically significantly correlated with GMA and CRA when specific conditions are met. The conditions are explained in detail and an outlook is given on how to further investigate this important finding. Our discovery is relevant for all researchers investigating radioactive decay measurements since they point out that the space weather condition during the measurement is relevant for partially explaining the observed variability.

[Period-tripling in Multiscale Physical and Biological Events].

A recent paper by S.J. Puetz et al. (Chaos, Solitons -& Fractals, v. 62-63, p. 55, 2014) described a fundamental period-tripled model. It involves periods of different astronomical (quasars, Sun), geophysical (geomagnetic, climatic, volcanic) and some biological processes. This work contains statistics for sixteen pairs of a period-tripled sequence. These periods range from -50 years to 1.5 billion years and no signs of the timescale limitations are found. We believe that the universal scope of the fundamental period-tripled model can be used for the development of new methodology of research data analysis: the main idea is that the spectrum of the periods of the studied event should be tested for the similarity with the spectrum of fundamental period-tripling pattern (because of the fundamental nature of the period-tripled model). Using this method, in this study we complement an already described period-tripled model with periods of human memory performance ranging from one minute to one month also adding seven relevant periods/frequencies of the period-tripled model in the range of human hearing. We make a conclusion that these characteristic frequencies may form the basis for music and singing phenomena. The new methodology is particularly appropriate for being applied in medicine and engineering.

[Basic phenomena of "macroscopic fluctuations" are repeated on light beams generated by lasers or light-emitting diodes].

Basic phenomena of the "macroscopic fluctuations are repeated on the light beams generated by lasers or light-emitting diodes. Study of the light beams fluctuations look promissory.

[Regular measurement--a new method for biophysical experiment].

A system of quantized relations between the value of the quantity being measured and the width of its experimental scattering was experimentally found in the results of measurements of rates of various processes. For determining D, the square of the ratio of the root-mean-square deviation to the mean value of the quantity being measured, particularly long series of stereotypic measurements under stable conditions, so-called regular measurements, are carried out. Regular changes in biochemical, chemical, and physical quantities show that the D value is related by a simple rational expression to the universal dimensionless constant D0 whose numerical value was measured with required accuracy. The simplicity of the ratios of D and D0 may result from the fact that, during regular measurements, the quantum behavior of the system macrodevice-object can be revealed.

[Discrete macroscopic fluctuations in processes of various nature]. / Diskretnye makroskopicheskie fluktuatsii v protsessakh raznoi prirody.

The data of 30-year investigations of macroscopic fluctuations are generalized in this review. The results of measuring processes of different nature (from biochemical reactions to radioactive decay) fluctuate. They are presented by certain discrete values. The discreteness of corresponding spectra of states can be probably explained by both pure mathematical causes and cosmophysical factors. The fluctuation amplitude and the shape of the spectrum of the states of objects with different nature depend on the universal external cosmophysical factors. General problems arising in connection with the analysis of the "scatter in the results" and "nonreproducibility of measurements" are discussed.

[Macroscopic fluctuations in aqueous solutions of proteins and other substances as a possible consequence of cosmo-geophysical factors]. / Makroskopickeskie fluktuatsii v vodnykh rastvorakh belkov i drugikh veshchestv kak vozmozhnoe sledstvie kosmogeofizicheskikh faktorov.

Synchronous measurements of macroscopic fluctuations (MF) in Pushchino, Simferopol, Alma-Ata and Pojakonda (Moscow University Biological Station on the White Sea) show a similarity between the low frequency components of macroscopic fluctuations (trends) after shifting the latter by the time interval corresponding to the difference in longitude. The MF amplitude is shown to be essentially smaller in the North polar circle, as compared with that in the middle latitude. "Signals" presenting reproducible specific sequences of macroscopic fluctuations were found. It is suggested that synchronism and probably the very existence of macroscopic fluctuations are caused by some cosmic-geophysical factors.

[Macroscopic fluctuations--a general property of aqueous solutions of different proteins and other substances. Statistical spectral analysis of macroscopic fluctuations]. / Makroskopicheskie fluktuatsii--obshchee svoistvo vodnykh rastvorov razlichnykh belkov i drugikh veshchestv. Statisitcheskii spektral'nyi analiz makroskopicheskikh fluktuatsii.

When studying enzymic activities in successively chosen portions of solutions of pyruvatekinase, hexokinase, lactatedehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, acetylcholinesterase and trypsin fast macroscopic fluctuations were revealed. These fluctuations were found earlier in protein preparations of the actomyosin complex and creatinkinase and described as "conformation fluctuations". Similar macroscopic fluctuations were also revealed when measuring the rate of reaction between ascorbic acid and dichlorphenolindophenol (DCAPI). The spectra of macroscopic fluctuations in solutions of different proteins and ascorbic acid+DCAPI are similar to each other in principle. This gives grounds to consider the ability towards macroscopic fluctuations to be a common property of solutions of different substances.

[Spectrum of macroscopic fluctuations in the enzymatic activity of creatine kinase]. / Spektr makroskopicheskikh fluktuatsii fermentativnoi aktivnosti kreatinkinazy.

Computations were carried out of 725 recordings of enzymic activity of equal shares of creatinkinase solution. It has been shown that in the course of macroscopic fluctuations (synchronous in the macrovolume of "conformation fluctuations") a discrete characteristic spectrum of protein solution state resolution degree of the spectrum is deteriorated. Application of statistical spectral analysis to characterization of the properties of protein aqueous solutions is suggested.

[Relationship between the spectra of macroscopic fluctuations of creatine kinase enzyme activity and the pH of a protein solution]. / Zavisimost' spektrov makroskopicheskikh fluktuatsii fermentativnoi aktivnosti kreatinkinazy ot pH rastvora belka.

A canonic shape of the spectrum of macroscopic fluctuations of enzymic activity in creatinkinase solutions [1] is revealed within wide pH range. With pH decrease (from 10.0 to 6.0) the discreteness and reproducibility of the spectra decreases, at pH 5.0 no canonic spectrum was revealed. The discovered dependence of the spectrum shape on pH illustrates possibilities of spectral analysis of macroscopic fluctuations for characterization of the states of protein aqueous solutions.