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HYPOTHESIS TO EXPLAIN THE IMAGE FORMATION AND CARBON DATING ON THE SHROUD OF TURIN , Robert A. Rucker

HIPÓTESE PARA EXPLICAR A FORMAÇÃO DA IMAGEM E DATAÇÃO POR CARBONO NO SUDÁRIO DE TURIM

The Shroud of Turin contains full-size front and dorsal (back) images of a man who was crucified exactly as Jesus was crucified according to the New Testament. The mysteries of the Shroud include how the images were formed and why the Shroud was carbon dated to 1260-1390 AD. By following the scientific evidence where it leads, the Vertically Collimated Radiation Burst (VCRB) hypothesis was developed to explain these mysteries. According to this hypothesis, an extremely brief vertically oriented oscillation of the nuclei in the body caused about 0.0004% of the deuterium nuclei to fission or split, causing protons and neutrons to be emitted oscillating between vertically up and vertically down directions. It was deuterium nuclei that split because this isotope requires the least energy to split. The protons deposited their electric charge on the cloth, with the oscillating vertical direction of the protons causing an alternating electrical current in the image fibers. This caused heating of a very thin region around the circumference of the fibers which discolored them by a scorch mechanism, producing the front and dorsal images of a crucified man. The neutrons emitted from the splitting deuterium would have produced new C-14 atoms by neutron absorption in N-14 in the linen thread. This new C-14 would shift the carbon date forward relative to the true date. Nuclear analysis computer calculations indicate that this new C-14 produced in the samples cut from the corner of the Shroud in 1988 can explain the 1988 carbon dating of the Shroud including: 1) a mean or average date of 1260-1390 AD, 2) a change in the carbon date as a function of the distance from the short edge of the cloth of about 36 years per cm, 3) the distribution of the carbon dates that were measured for the 12 subsamples, and 4) the average carbon date of about 700 AD for the Sudarium of Oviedo, which is believed to be Jesus’ face cloth in John 20:7. An assumption of naturalism with the Shroud being made in 1260 results in a deviation from the measured carbon dates that was 4.5 times larger than if the Shroud was made in 33 AD with neutron emission from Jesus’ body in his resurrection..             

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