Saint Peter's Bones

[Mudhammam]

According to Alberto Carpinteri, from the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, a massive earthquake, measuring 8.2 on the Richter Scale, in 33 A.D. in Jerusalem (soon after the time of the Crucifixion) could have led to the release of free neutrons, attaching to other atoms, to form carbon isotopes, a process called neutron radiation. The research was published in the journal Meccanica...

Carpinteri says he is able to produce these neutron emissions by compressing brittle pieces of rock. This is known as a “piezonuclear fission reaction” and the neutron emission is caused by the fission, splitting, of iron atoms, but the reaction does not emit gamma rays or nuclear waste, notes Science Insider.

The Jerusalem earthquake could have created neutron emissions that either interacted with the Shroud of Turin to produce the image or increased the carbon-14 isotope level. Carpinteri said in a statement, “We believe it is possible that neutron emissions by earthquakes could have induced the image formation on the Shroud’s linen fibers, through thermal neutron capture on nitrogen nuclei, and could also have caused a wrong radiocarbon dating.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/shroud-turin-wron...sy-1554922

I think that illustrates the mental loops people will jump through to keep their illusory hopes alive.

@Randy
Regarding the more recent testing you cite, which claims that the shroud dates to 33 BC +/- 250 years, I haven't been able to find any sources that corroborate those - and, it should be added, they were revealed in a book that the researcher himself produced. Self-promotion much? At the very least, you should be skeptical.