Alexander V. Kaminsky
Alexander V. Kaminsky | |
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| Known for | Claimed anisotropy of space in radioactive-decay experiments |
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| Fields | Experimental physics |
Alexander V. Kaminsky is a researcher who has published experimental studies, in collaboration with Simon E. Shnoll and co-workers, claiming to detect an anisotropy (directional non-uniformity) of space through the statistics of radioactive decay. He is listed in The Worldwide List of Dissident Scientists.
Work
Kaminsky is a co-author of the paper "Experiments with Rotating Collimators Cutting Out Pencil of Alpha-Particles at Radioactive Decay of 239-Pu Evidence Sharp Anisotropy of Space" (Progress in Physics, 2005, v. 1, pp. 81–84), together with S. E. Shnoll and others. Using collimators to select narrow beams of alpha particles emitted in the decay of plutonium-239, the authors report that the fine structure of the histograms of measured count rates depends sharply on the direction in which the particles are emitted, and that rotating the collimators produces changes with periods tied to the number of revolutions.
The authors interpret these patterns as evidence that the results are governed by the orientation of the apparatus relative to the celestial sphere and the positions of the Earth, Sun, and Moon, which they take as an indication of a "sharp anisotropy of space." Kaminsky has also collaborated with Shnoll on related studies of cosmophysical factors in the fluctuation-amplitude spectra of physical processes such as Brownian motion. This body of work, associated with the so-called Shnoll effect, lies outside the scientific mainstream, which attributes radioactive decay to statistically isotropic quantum processes.