Abstract
We investigate the Vacuum UV radiation with the aim to understand if a radiative mechanism is able to produce the Shroud Body Image. The ENEA team showed that a radiation (with ʎ = 193 nm) penetrated the linen fibrils for about 200 nm (the primary cell wall) as it is for the Shroud. The inner part remained colorless. With the same radiation, the above scientists obtained a latent Shroud-like coloring with the right hue. Now, in order to investigate the VUV radiative hypothesis for the Body Image formation, we underline that: i) the corpse emits radiation on the linen, directly and indirectly crossing the air; ii) the same radiation has a strong interaction with the air located between corpse and sheet. Consequently, the air quickly absorbs the VUV radiation which penetrates for a few microns. In such a case, only the corpse-sheet contact areas will be colored, while the others will appear with the background optical density as in the off-image area. Thus, the above radiation is a right tool to obtaining the Shroud-like coloring but, at the same time, it is unable to produce a complete Body Image.
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