Space-Weather Variations as a Probable Cause of the Appearance of Artifacts in Accurate Measurements

Abstract

A brief review of anomalous (paradoxical) results of measuring different parameters is presented in which the likely cause of the appearance of contradictions (oddities) is variations in space weather (solar activity). In physics, such artifacts are fictitious changes in the gravitational constant, the imitation of gravitational wave bursts by the Weber antennas, and false variations in the radioactive decay rate. In cosmophysics, these artifacts are apparent variations in the intensity of high-energy cosmic rays and in the solar neutrino flux. The brightest artifacts in astrophysics are the variability of the cosmological redshift, the presence of solar oscillations with a period of 160 min in the nuclei of distant galaxies, and the presence of periods of natural Earth oscillations in the radiation of cosmic masers. The influence of space weather in all these cases can be easily explained by assuming that there is an impact on the measurement technology, i.e., on the instruments. Space weather probably becomes an important factor in metrology.