Recent work has
hugely advanced the pro authenticity argument and fabric age itself is likely
to disappear as an issue. Considering
the remarkable circumstances of the resurrection itself, it is unsurprising
that it was passed down amoung leading Christians until today. That at least disposes of both maybes which
we are supposed to multiply. We simply
do not need this argument for this case.
Much more
important to us is the plausible production of neutrons during an
earthquake. Has this ever been
observed? If so it must be carefully
measured and accounted for. Carbon 14
dating has always been the monkey in the woodshed for dealing with ancient
artifacts. It has been seriously
problematic and in fact grossly misleading at times. It turned our understanding of prehistory
upside down once with the tree ring adjustment.
Thus artifacts
drawn from quake prone districts are clearly susceptible to adjustment. Now can we prove that or even observe a real
effect.
More pertinent,
we have huge undated structures that appear to be used as a resonator using
large blocks of granite. These would
surely emit ample radiation over their operating lifespan. So yes we need to become
more curious.
Turin Shroud may
have been created by earthquake from time of Jesus
An earthquake in Jerusalem in AD 33 may have caused
an atomic reaction which created the Turin Shroud and skewed radiocarbon dating
results, scientists believe
7:24PM GMT 11 Feb 2014
The Turin Shroud may not be a medieval forgery after
all, after scientists discovered it could date from the time of Christ.
The shroud, which is purported to be the burial
cloth of Jesus - showing his face and body after the crucifixion - has
intrigued scholars and Christians alike.
But radiocarbon dating carried out by Oxford
University in 1988 found it was only 728 years old.
However a new study claims than an earthquake in
Jerusalem in 33AD may have not only created the image but may also have skewed
the dating results.
The Italian team believes the powerful magnitude 8.2
earthquake would have been strong enough to release neutron particles from
crushed rock.
This flood of neutrons may have imprinted an
X-ray-like image onto the linen burial cloth,
say the researches.
In addition, the
radiation emissions would have increased the level of carbon-14 isotopes in the
Shroud, which would make it appear younger.
"We believe it is possible that neutron
emissions by earthquakes could have induced the image formation on the Shroud's
linen fibres, through thermal neutron capture on nitrogen nuclei, and could
also have caused a wrong radiocarbon dating," said Professor Alberto
Carpinteri, from the Politecnico di Torino.
The Shroud has attracted widespread interest ever
since Secondo Pia took the first photograph of it in 1898 which showed details
which could not be seen by the naked eye.
Last year scientists at the University of Padua in
northern Italy dated it to between 300BC and AD400 – still hundreds of years after Christ, who is
believed to have died between 30-36AD.
[ this writer
has no clue - arclein]
Other scientists have previously suggested that
neutron radiation may have been responsible for the ghostly image of a
crucified man with his arms crossed.
However, no plausible explanation has been offered
for the source of the radiation.
Now Carpinteri’s team have hypothesized that
high-frequency pressure waves generated in the Earth’s crust during earthquakes
are the source of such neutron emissions.
The scientists base the idea on research into
piezonuclear fission reactions which occur when brittle rock is crushed under
enormous pressure.
Neutron radiation is usually generated by nuclear
fusion or fission, and may be produced by nuclear reactors or particle
accelerators.
During the process, neutron particles are released
from atoms.
A powerful earthquake could achieve the same effect,
generating neutron radiation from stresses in the Earth, it is claimed.
Mark Antonacci, a leading expert on the Shroud and
president of the Resurrection of the Shroud Foundation, is currently
petitioning Pope Francis to allow molecular analysis of the cloth using the
latest technology. It is hoped that such an investigation will be able to
confirm or rule out the radiation theory.
The Vatican has never said whether it believes the
shroud to be authentic, although Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI once said that the
enigmatic image imprinted on the cloth "reminds us always" of
Christ's suffering.
The first, hotly debated, documented reference to
the Shroud of Turin dates back to the 14th century when a French knight was
said to have had possession of the cloth in the city of Lirey.
Records suggest the Shroud changed hands many times
until 1578, when it ended up in its current home, the Cathedral of Saint John
the Baptist in Turin, Italy.
The 14-foot long herringbone woven cloth appears to
show the faint imprint of a man bearing wounds consistent with crucifixion.
Some have proposed that it came from the body
itself, or was generated by an event inside the tomb, pointing to a divine
origin linked to the resurrection.
The new theory is published in the journal
Meccanica.
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