Radiocarbon Dating of Organic Materials Subjected to Very-High Magnitude Earthquakes: The Case-Study of Turin Shroud
Year: 2026

Abstract Phillips and Hedges, in the scientific magazine Nature (1989), suggest that neutron radiation could be liable of wrong radiocarbon dating, whereas proton radiation could be responsible of the image formation of a human body on the Turin Shroud. On the other hand, no plausible physical reason has been proposed so far to explain the radiation source origin, and its effects on the linen fibers. Some recent studies, carried out at the Laboratory of Fracture Mechanics of Politecnico di Torin