论文部分内容阅读
黑死病1665年横扫英国,迫使牛顿离开大学,继而有了他后来极为重要的发现。当时的天文纪录表明当年正处于剧烈的太阳黑子活跃期。根据太阳受干扰时树的年轮变宽这一规律,对树的年轮研究显示,1348年那场可怕的瘟疫也伴随着剧烈的太阳活动。一名俄罗斯历史教授收集这类数据已经四十年,他声称,一些大瘟疫,欧洲爆发的白喉和霍乱,俄罗斯的斑疹伤寒,芝加哥流行的天花都出现在太阳11年一轮的活动高峰。
The Black Death Swept the UK in 1665, forcing Newton out of college, which was followed by an extremely important discovery of him. The astronomical record at that time showed that the year was in the active period of intense sunspots. According to the law that the tree rings widen when the sun is disturbed, studies of the tree’s annual rings show that the terrible plague of 1348 was also accompanied by intense solar activity. A professor of Russian history has collected such data for 40 years, claiming that some major plagues, diphtheria and cholera in Europe, typhus in Russia, and Chicago’s poppies have all taken place at the height of the 11-year round of solar activity.