Alexander E. Shnoll
Alexander E. Shnoll | |
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| Known for | Studies of the "palindrome effect" and macroscopic fluctuations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biophysics, cosmophysics |
Alexander E. Shnoll is a researcher who has co-authored work on the so-called "macroscopic fluctuations" and "palindrome effect" studied within the school of biophysicist Simon E. Shnoll. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Alexander E. Shnoll is a co-author, together with Simon E. Shnoll and Victor A. Panchelyuga, of the paper "The Palindrome Effect", published in the journal Progress in Physics in 2008. The work is part of a long-running research program claiming that the fine structure of histograms built from the results of measurements of processes of diverse nature (such as radioactive decay counts) is not purely random but changes in a regular way with time.
The reported "palindrome effect" is the observation that two sets of histograms built from two consecutive 12-hour time series are said to be most similar when one set is arranged in reverse order and the series begins six hours after local noon. The authors interpret such patterns as evidence of an influence of the Earth's motion through an anisotropic space-time on measurement processes. These interpretations lie outside the accepted scientific mainstream, which regards such fluctuations as statistical artifacts.