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From: "Grover Zinn (imap)" <[log in to unmask]>
> I just checked the BBC site. The shroud program is going to be on BBC
2 (tv) which cannot be viewed in the US. (alas).
On Mar 21, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Rosemary Hayes-Milligan and Andrew
Milligan wrote:
>It may be worth looking at the BBC web site to see if they are going to make
it one of the programmes you can look at again over the internet.
www.bbc.co.uk.
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:25:42 -0700, Diana Wright wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7307646.stm
the BBC programme will, obviously, be close to worthless --even if actually
seen in GB.
this page
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4210369.stm
explains that the programme is based on a serious scholarly article published
in the journal Thermochimica Acta, familiar to us all.
the article itself is available here
www.shroud.it/ROGERS-3.PDF
the author, Raymond N. Rogers, is a long-serving memeber of the notorious
"Shroudie" group, STURP [the Shroud of Turin Research Project] from the
spacey
1970s, and "Barrie Schwortz, the record photographer for STURP," is
recognized
in the acknowledgements "for expert assistance in preparing the figures."
the article uses many, many multi-syllabic words, but here's the Abstract:
"In 1988, radiocarbon laboratories at Arizona, Cambridge, and Zurich
determined the age of a sample from the Shroud of Turin. They
reported that the date of the cloth’s production lay between a.d. 1260 and
1390 with 95% confidence. This came as a surprise in view of the
technology used to produce the cloth, its chemical composition, and the lack
of vanillin in its lignin. The results prompted questions about
the validity of the sample.
"Preliminary estimates of the kinetics constants for the loss of vanillin
from
lignin indicate a much older age for the cloth than the radiocarbon
analyses. The radiocarbon sampling area is uniquely coated with a
yellow–brown plant gum containing dye lakes. Pyrolysis-mass-spectrometry
results from the sample area coupled with microscopic and microchemical
observations prove that the radiocarbon sample was not part of the
original cloth of the Shroud of Turin. The radiocarbon date was thus not
valid
for determining the true age of the shroud."
of course, it's obvious to any Art Historian worth her psalt that the thing
is
just a typical 14th c. French Painting.
c
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