Robert Ehrlich — Page 2

arXiv2007

Solar Resonant Diffusion Waves as a Driver of Terrestrial Climate Change

A theory is described based on resonant thermal diffusion waves in the sun that appears to explain many details of the paleotemperature record for the last 5.3 million years. These include the observed periodicities, the relative strengths of each observed cycle, and the sudden emergence in time for the 100 thousand year cycle. Other prior work suggesting a link between terrestrial paleoclimate and solar luminosity variations has not provided any specific mechanism. The particular mechanism described here has been demonstrated empirically, although not previously invoked in the solar context. The theory also lacks most of the problems associated with Milankovitch cycles.

astro-ph↗

arXiv2000

Neutrino Mass^2 Inferred from the Cosmic Ray Spectrum and Tritium Beta Decay

An earlier prediction of a cosmic ray neutron line right at the energy of the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum was based on the speculation that the electron neutrino is a tachyon whose mass is reciprocally related to the energy of the knee, $E_k$. Given the large uncertainty in $E_k$, the values of ${m_ν}^2$ corresponding to it are consistent with values recently reported in tritium beta decay experiments.

hep-ph↗