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masterBlaster  ·  3774 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mysterious radiation burst recorded 1,200 years ago in tree rings

| "It would be fascinating," Baker adds, "if there were some record in China or in the Middle East that reported powerful aurora or some other such event" around the same time as the observed 14C increase. |

Buddhism was coming on strong at the time. A lot of people attaining enlightenment which as we all know releases a burst of radiation referred to as a Buddha bomb.