Giulio Fanti

"Interviewer: The Shroud, the large linen sheet bearing marks consistent with the torture and crucifixion of Christ, now preserved in Turin Cathedral, is the subject of heated controversy regarding its dating. You coordinated a study that sets the date between 33 AD and 250 AD. What methods did you use? Are there any new elements? Professor Fanti: First of all, it should be remembered that the Shroud of Turin (ST) was dated using the carbon-14 method in 1988, resulting in an age of 1325 AD with an uncertainty of ±65 years at a 95% confidence level. However, recent studies, including those conducted by the team of Prof. Marco Riani, professor of statistics at the University of Parma, have shown how unreliable these data are. In fact, in 1988, a probable contamination of the linen was not considered, which distorted the results, in addition to other procedural errors."

"This image can only be the result of the Resurrection. To obtain an image of this type, it is necessary to have an extremely intense source of energy, comparable to the “flash” of the Resurrection. A clue to this comes from the results of the 1988 radiocarbon test. While previous mechanical and chemical tests had dated the linen to the first century AD (when Jesus of Nazareth actually lived and died in Palestine), this test, on the other hand, places the dating in the Middle Ages."

"Thirty-six hours after the deposition, there was a bright explosion in the tomb that imprinted the image of Jesus on the sheet. Perhaps similar to the source that feeds the Holy Fire of Jerusalem: a flame that does not burn."

"The relevant topics are varied, but in particular, a professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements offers his expertise in the field of measurement science applied to physical systems, especially in the mechanical and thermal fields. Consequently, mechanical measurements on the Shroud are particularly suited to a university professor specialising in this subject, not to mention the thermal measurements that have been very important both for studying the effects of the Chambéry fire of 1532, which severely damaged Christianity's most important relic, and for studying the thermal effects linked to the probable explosion of energy that produced the double body image. [...]"