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Heliogeophysical electromagnetic variations and measurements of the gravitational constant
Abstract
The results of repeated measurements of the gravitational constant by the Karagioz-Izmailov setup (1991) are compared with heliogeophysical indices. It is found that the extremely high values of the measured constant coincide with magnetic-activity minima. The variance of day-by-day measurement results increases with the decrease of the magnetic activity and with the rise of the level of ionospheric disturbances. It follows from our analysis that the setup is possibly affected by amplitude-spectrum variations in VLF background electromagnetic fields. Such variations seem to influence the elasticity coefficient of the suspension filament of the torsion pendulum through the magnetoplasticity effect.
... The difference in G between the two methods was 4.6 × 10 −15 m 3 ·kg −1 ·s −2 or ~70 ppm. The difference is within the range of 10 −4 which was considered by Vladimirskii [2] to be the boundary for accuracy to infer G with torsion balances. Vladimirskii [2] and later Vladimirsky and Bruns [3] reported a source of variability that could account for the spread in G of ~400 ppm noted by Quinn et al. [1]. ...
... The difference is within the range of 10 −4 which was considered by Vladimirskii [2] to be the boundary for accuracy to infer G with torsion balances. Vladimirskii [2] and later Vladimirsky and Bruns [3] reported a source of variability that could account for the spread in G of ~400 ppm noted by Quinn et al. [1]. ...
... This source involved heliophysical perturbations as inferred by inferences of geomagnetic activity. Subtle variations in G which are systematically and quantitatively related to alterations in geomagnetic activity could be secondary to direct influences upon instrumentation [2] [3]. However if there is a third variable that is shared by both variation in G and geomagnetic activity, it may have both theoretical and practical significance. ...
We compared the small quantitative changes (range) in G over repeated
measures (days) with recently improved methods of determinations and those
recorded over 20 years ago. The range in the Newtonian constant of gravitation
G is usually in the order of 400 ppm as reflected in experimentally-determined
values. The moderate strength negative correlation between daily fluctuations
in G, in the range of 3 × 10-3 of the average value, and an index of
global geomagnetic activity reported by Vladimirsky and Bruns in 1998 was also
found for the daily fluctuations in the angular deflection θ (in arcseconds) and geomagnetic activity within 24 hr for the
Quinn et al. 2013 data. A temporal
coupling between increases of geomagnetic activity in the order of 10-9 T with decreases in G in the order of 10-14 m3·kg-1·s-2 could suggest a recondite shared source of variance. The energy equivalence for
this change in G and geomagnetic activity within 1 L of water is ~3 × 10-14 J.
... Persinger and St-Pierre [74] quantitatively examined the results from the recent work by Quinn and his colleagues [75] and Vladimirsky et al. [76,77] from about twenty years ago. Both groups of researchers had found fluctuations in G that were in the range of 3·10 -3 of the average value for G. ...
We tested the hypothesis that discrete energies from entropic-like processes immersed within background photon densities of ~10-11 W·m-2 were coupled to the occurrence of changes in random events that lead to specific consequences about two days later. This latency was obtained from the ratio of the summed equivalent energies associated with a Bohr electron divided by the value for the fluctuation of background photon density within the likely area of the gap junctions mediating the electron tunneling. Hourly values for 30 days for background photon densities and deviations on random number generators involved lags between 0 and 72 hours. Multiple regression equations indicated that deviations from random number variations were only correlated with photon densities approximately 48 hr (2 days) previously. Convergent quantitative values were consistent with source energies from virtual particles at the level of entropic thresholds. The delay of approximately two days between the emergent energies that influence an event and the manifestation of the event in physical time or the specious present suggest that technology could be developed to predict or modify actual events in real time. Implications for causality and determinism are considered.
This paper is a short review of publications on the influence that solar activity and geomagnetic disturbances (cosmic weather)
have on physical-chemical systems. The effects of cosmic weather may some-times be detected by the presence of an uncontrolled
factor in these experiments. Direct reactions to cosmic weather are reliably identified in quantitative observations over
various test systems, mainly water solutions. The effects of cosmic weather are also found from the data obtained by monitoring
some simple physical systems, including semiconductors. All these effects are either cosmic physical rhythms or they are easily
registered sporadic heliogeophysical events (e.g., magnetic storms). There are convincing data that demonstrate the influence
that cosmic weather has on the accident rate in various engineering and physical systems. Researchers are at odds on the physical
nature of the main physical agent, but the contribution of electromagnetic fields to these processes is considered important.
Keywordscosmic weather–physical-chemical systems–technosphere–accident rate
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