Experimental results using corona discharge to attempt to reproduce the Turin Shroud Image

Abstract

Abstract.It is well known that the Turin Shroud (TS) body image is not reproducible with all its peculiar features, but a great number of attempts have been made to reproduce at the same time the macro-and micro-scale properties of the double (front and back) image of the human body impressed on the most important Relic of the Christianity. The authors are convinced that among these experiments, those performed using CD (Corona Discharge) allowed to reproduce the greatest number of similarities.The experiments were performed in the high-voltage laboratory of the University of Padua where CD was used to produce human images using linen clothes enveloping a halfscale conductive manikin of a man postured in the same way as the TS Man.The manikin was suspended from ground and connected through the feet to a 300-kV DC supply. The resulting CD produced a human image on the enveloping linen cloth after proper aging. Due to the draping configuration, the image showed various distortions of pseudo-cylindrical type.The structure of the resulting electric field and the influence of the cover producing a partial barrier effect was studied together with the pseudo-cylindrical distortions that resulted less evident in the TS image. This information was used to study the enveloping configuration of the TS during the image formation

Why is the Turin Shroud Authentic?

“…Among the hypotheses that seem most promising, there is that connected to a strong electric field that generates the so-called corona discharge. Experimental tests carried out in collaboration with Giancarlo Pesavento [20] of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Padua University (Italy) have confirmed the achievement of a good part of the Shroud's characteristics reported in the literature, although obviously not all.…”

Introductory Paper: Scientific Results on the Turin Shroud Coming from a Paduan University Research Project

“…Imaging of the TS by a Corona Discharge may even be a by-product of the Resurrection [9], and this may be why the image cannot be technically reproduced or scientifically explained in a complete form. By means of the present URP some progress about these hypotheses has nevertheless been obtained [28].…”

“…The most probable source of energy is of electric type and connected to the Corona Discharge [9,27]. Some experiments have been performed to reproduce the TS body image and some interesting results have been recently published [28]. F. Lattarulo presents in this issue, an electrostatic hypothesis that could have produced the image.…”

“…The answers are synthetically reported in this collection of papers. In reference to Point 1, ascertained that the body image formation process is not explainable in the whole, it is discussed why this process was probably due to a source of "energy"; the most probable one is of electric type and connected to the Corona Discharge [9,27,28].…”

Electrostatic imaging for the Turin-Shroud Man

“…In other words, reproducing an integral TSM results in a purely theoretical expectation [10]; x low-powered d.c. high-voltage systems on one hand allow entire TSM-like imprinting to be obtained with fairly good reproduction of micro-scale features and with a reasonably lowenergy consumption; on the other, the image looks cylindrically distorted and impressed on the outer, instead of the inner, side of the piece of fabric corresponding to the TSM frontal region. Furthermore, the dorsal image has not been obtained so far [11].…”