An Exquisitely Fine Paint Brush for the Turin Shroud’s Body Image

The Shroud’s body image is a monochromatic half-tone made from a huge number of short, straw yellow discolorations. These discolorations donot penetrate the trheads oreven all the way through the fibers which make up the threads. They appear only on a thin outer layer of the fibers, the fiber primary cell walls. In this work we show that the radioactive isotope rubidium 87 is found in linen fiber’s primary cell walls in sufficient concentrations to initiate yellowing <i>should a large proportion undergo beta decay</i>. This kind of nuclear decay involves the emission of an anti-neutrino which escapes, so that the electron which is produced concurrently can have a variety of kinetic energies and can be launched in a variety of directions. We argue that radiation damage from electron irradiation could have produced uniform yellowing of the fiber primary cell walls and have quenched ultra-violet fluorescence, both characteristics of the Shroud’s body image. Recent developements in the theory of quantum foundations point to the existance of a world, indistinguishable from ours and occupying our same spactime, in which the image was, with certainty, created by <sup>87</sup>Rb decays.