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Daily Archives: June 4, 2012

Tree Rings and A Cosmic Mystery

June 4, 2012 · by GunnarDW | in Astronomy, Physics, Science | tagged Cosmos, Mystery, Radiation, Ring, Tree | 2 Comments

Between AD 774 and 775 something weird happened. And that something weird resulted in a 12% increase of 14C (a radioactive form of carbon) in the atmosphere. How do we even know this? Tree rings. Earlier work had enabled the dating of this phenomenon with the accuracy of a decade. Now, a new study improved […]

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