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Solar spot influence on Earth's molecular processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2012

Vladimir K. Evstafyev
Vladimir K. Evstafyev*
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Physics, Gagarin boulevard 20, Irkutsk 664003, Siberia e-mail: evs@api.isu.ru
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Abstract

The paper considers the two-century-old problem of how solar spots influence biological objects on the Earth. It describes the modern state of the kT-problem, which for a long time has been the most difficult obstacle in explaining solar activity effects. Based on recent advances in spin chemistry and magnetoplasticity physics, it is shown that a ‘molecular target’ sensitive to weak electromagnetic fields is spins in non-equilibrial states of the molecular system. A way of how solar spots can influence Earth's molecular, including biological, processes through a ‘transparency window’ in the Earth's atmosphere is proposed.

Keywords

solar spotsolar-terrestrialspin dynamicssinglet–triplet conversionbiological effects of solar activity
Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Astrobiology , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 21 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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