Turin Shroud: Could earthquake dating back to time of Jesus solve the mystery?
Source: independent.co.uk
Scientists believe radiation released by an earthquake may be behind the mysterious Shroud of Turin, Christianity’s most famous relic.
Many Catholics believe the image on the shroud, purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, is a miraculous depiction of Christ.
The 14-foot long herringbone woven cloth appears to show the faint imprint of a man bearing wounds consistent with crucifixion.
But a team in Italy are now claiming the powerful magnitude 8.2 earthquake, which occurred in Old Jerusalem in the year 33 AD, the same year Christians believe Jesus was crucified, would have been strong enough to release neutron particles from crushed rock.
The flood of neutrons may have imprinted an X-ray-like image onto the linen burial cloth by reacting with nitrogen nuclei, the researchers said.In addition, the radiation emissions would have increased the level of carbon-14 isotopes - atomic strains of carbon - in the Shroud.
According to the scientists, led by Professor Alberto Carpinteri from the Politecnico di Torino, this could have confused radiocarbon dating tests conducted by Oxford University in 1988 which suggested the cloth was only 728 years old, and therefore likely to be a forgery.
"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 Prof Carpinteri.
Other scientists have previously suggested that neutron radiation may have been responsible for the ghostly image of a crucified man with his arms crossed, although no plausible explanation has been offered for the source of the radiation.
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