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Re: If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway...

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On 24-Oct-22 10:26 am, Alan B wrote:
> On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 7:00:11 PM UTC-4, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 22-Oct-22 5:44 am, Alan B wrote:
>>> If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway, what would your thoughts be?
>> You mean if it were demonstrated that every MMX experiment ever
>> previously done had produced incorrect results?
>>
>> Sylvia.
> 
> What I mean is future ones that have not been done yet.

That's really not how physics works. An experimental result does not 
supersede an earlier one just because it comes later. If one new result 
is in contradiction of many earlier ones, that would necessitate 
developing an understanding of how and why there is a difference.

The obvious initial suspicion would be that the new one was wrong. If it 
were subsequently demonstrated to be repeatable (I note that your 
"genuine" implies that it would be), then there would need to be 
additional experiments to determine how it is that the new experiments 
produce different results from the older experiments.

Eventually, that might result in a new theoretical formulation, but 
absent guidance from real results of real experiments, it's not possible 
even to speculate on what form that might take.

I may be wrong, but I doubt much MMX style experimental work is being 
done now, since few people seriously expect a deviation from the 
previous results, and it would be hard to get funding, much less 
motivation, to do such work. If any deviation from established MMX 
results were to be found, it would be as a side effect of other work.

Sylvia.

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If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway... Alan B <amirjfnin@aim.com> - 2022-10-21 11:44 -0700
  Re: If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway... "Dono." <eggy20011951@gmail.com> - 2022-10-21 14:18 -0700
  Re: If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway... Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2022-10-22 10:00 +1100
    Re: If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway... Alan B <amirjfnin@aim.com> - 2022-10-23 16:26 -0700
      Re: If MMX ever does somehow get genuine non-null results someway... Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2022-10-24 12:16 +1100

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