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A Particle Model of Light

Started byNed Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net>
First post2015-09-03 03:55 -0500
Last post2015-09-20 10:39 -0700
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  A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-03 03:55 -0500
    Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-09-03 12:32 +0200
      Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-03 08:15 -0500
        Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-09-03 19:38 +0200
          Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-03 15:06 -0500
    Re: A Particle Model of Light underante <underante@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-03 04:18 -0700
      Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-03 08:30 -0500
    Re: A Particle Model of Light kenseto <setoken@att.net> - 2015-09-03 07:08 -0700
      Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-03 15:16 -0500
        Re: A Particle Model of Light kenseto <setoken@att.net> - 2015-09-03 14:29 -0700
    Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-03 13:24 -0700
    Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-05 07:04 +1000
    Re: A Particle Model of Light John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2015-09-04 15:52 -0700
      Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-05 19:02 +1000
      Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-05 10:43 -0500
        Re: A Particle Model of Light Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-05 18:23 +0200
        Re: A Particle Model of Light John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 19:11 -0700
          Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-05 21:38 -0500
          Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-06 18:48 +1000
            Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-09-06 13:05 +0200
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-06 10:54 -0500
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-07 08:10 +1000
                Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-09-07 13:28 +0200
            Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-06 09:19 -0700
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-07 08:13 +1000
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-06 15:49 -0700
            Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-06 09:26 -0700
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-07 08:14 +1000
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-06 15:59 -0700
                  Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-08 06:34 +1000
                Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-09 10:31 -0700
          Re: A Particle Model of Light Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:54 +0300
            Re: A Particle Model of Light Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-06 22:48 +0200
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-06 22:52 +0200
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson DSc. <hw@....> - 2015-09-07 08:19 +1000
              Re: A Particle Model of Light antonius@freeshell.de (Anton Shepelev) - 2015-09-07 00:59 +0000
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-06 19:42 -0700
                  Re: A Particle Model of Light antonius@freeshell.de (Anton Shepelev) - 2015-09-11 22:03 +0000
                Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light) Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-12 23:14 -0500
                  Re: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light) Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 15:39 +0300
                  Re: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light) Ignorant Raving Crackpot <ignorantravingcrackpot@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 09:14 -0700
                    Re: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light) Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 20:42 +0300
                      Re: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light) Ignorant Raving Crackpot <ignorantravingcrackpot@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 12:38 -0700
                        Re: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light) Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 23:48 +0300
                        Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-13 16:29 -0500
                          Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-13 16:41 -0700
                            Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-24 23:54 -0500
                              Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-28 08:15 -0700
                          Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 22:07 +0300
                            Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-14 16:16 -0500
                    Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-13 16:16 -0500
                      Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Ignorant Raving Crackpot <ignorantravingcrackpot@gmail.com> - 2015-09-13 22:07 -0700
                        Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Ignorant Raving Crackpot <ignorantravingcrackpot@gmail.com> - 2015-09-14 04:16 -0700
                          Re: Dayton Miller's measurements Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2015-09-14 15:43 +0300
                        Re: Dayton Miller's measurements alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-14 12:01 -0700
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-09-18 07:18 +0200
            Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-20 12:37 -0500
              Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-20 14:09 -0700
                Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-20 17:34 -0500
                  Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-22 06:40 -0700
                    Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-22 19:14 -0500
                      Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-23 09:17 -0700
                        Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-24 09:39 -0500
                          Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-09-24 17:38 +0200
                          Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-24 10:54 -0700
                            Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-24 11:36 -0700
                              Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-24 11:54 -0700
                  Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Jimmie Wynne <jimmwyn@metermap.org> - 2015-09-22 15:45 +0000
                    Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-22 09:15 -0700
                      Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Jimmie Wynne <jimmwyn@metermap.org> - 2015-09-22 16:19 +0000
                      Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Jimmie Wynne <jimmwyn@metermap.org> - 2015-09-22 16:25 +0000
                        Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" Jimmie Wynne <jimmwyn@metermap.org> - 2015-09-22 16:28 +0000
                        Re: Shtyrkov's claim of finding the "ether drift" alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-22 10:27 -0700
    Re: A Particle Model of Light Alan Folmsbee <omnilobe@gmail.com> - 2015-09-05 03:39 -0700
      Re: A Particle Model of Light kefischer <emoneyjoe@iglou.com> - 2015-09-05 11:17 -0400
    Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-12 19:25 -0500
      Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-13 08:01 -0500
        Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-19 13:21 -0500
          Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-19 23:44 -0500
            Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-20 04:34 -0700
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-20 15:25 -0500
            Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-21 12:02 -0500
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Jimmie Wynne <jimmwyn@metermap.org> - 2015-09-21 17:37 +0000
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-21 22:17 -0500
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-22 08:18 -0500
              Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-22 09:07 -0500
                Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-26 09:06 -0500
                  Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-26 12:14 -0500
                    Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-29 11:41 -0500
                    Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 10:27 -0700
                      Re: A Particle Model of Light Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-09-29 21:11 +0200
                        Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 13:35 -0700
                          Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-09-29 23:23 -0700
                  Re: A Particle Model of Light Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-09-26 21:31 +0200
                  Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-09-27 08:37 +1000
                    Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-27 23:14 -0500
                      Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-28 01:41 -0700
                      Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-09-29 08:11 +1000
                        Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-28 18:53 -0700
                        Re: A Particle Model of Light Tom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net> - 2015-09-29 10:24 -0500
                          Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 11:13 -0500
                            Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-03 08:13 +1000
                              Re: A Particle Model of Light pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-10-02 17:07 -0700
                          Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-29 13:41 -0700
                            Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 14:43 -0700
                              Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-30 11:28 -0700
                          Re: A Particle Model of Light Ned Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net> - 2015-09-30 08:34 -0500
                          Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-03 07:51 +1000
                            Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-03 14:22 +0200
                              Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson <HW@.....> - 2015-10-05 04:32 +1100
                                Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-05 10:00 +0200
                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson <HW@.....> - 2015-10-05 19:58 +1100
                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-05 19:35 +0200
                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson <HW@.....> - 2015-10-06 04:39 +1100
                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-06 10:38 +0200
                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-06 02:15 -0700
                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-07 08:01 +1100
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-06 14:16 -0700
                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-09 08:16 +1100
                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-08 20:50 -0700
                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-11 08:11 +1100
                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-10 14:44 -0700
                                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-12 07:51 +1100
                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-11 17:12 -0700
                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-12 11:47 +0200
                                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-13 08:01 +1100
                                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-13 19:39 +0200
                                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <HG@nowhere.com> - 2015-10-13 21:36 +0000
                                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-14 10:26 +0200
                                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-14 02:10 -0700
                                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-15 09:18 +1100
                                                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 15:59 -0700
                                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-14 22:59 -0700
                                                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-15 20:15 +0200
                                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-16 07:36 +1100
                                                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-15 18:37 -0700
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no> - 2015-10-07 08:56 +0200
                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 07:47 -0500
                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light Henry Wilson <HW@.....> - 2015-10-06 04:50 +1100
                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-05 14:17 -0500
                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-06 14:55 +1100
                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light pnalsing@gmail.com - 2015-10-05 21:02 -0700
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-07 07:51 +1100
                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 08:15 -0500
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-06 06:26 -0700
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-07 07:53 +1100
                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 11:26 -0700
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 13:58 -0500
                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light HGW <xxx@....> - 2015-10-07 07:56 +1100
                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 13:57 -0700
                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-07 00:15 -0700
                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 11:15 -0700
                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-12 12:31 -0700
                                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 14:55 -0700
                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-12 17:36 -0700
                                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 21:55 -0700
                                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-13 08:39 -0700
                                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:49 -0700
                                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:54 -0700
                                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-14 02:25 -0700
                                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-14 02:43 -0700
                                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-14 09:16 -0700
                                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 10:37 -0700
                                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-14 12:31 -0700
                                                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 12:56 -0700
                                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-15 11:31 -0700
                                                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 12:31 -0700
                                                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-17 15:53 -0700
                                                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 20:38 -0700
                                                        Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-12 18:02 -0700
                                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light paparios <paparios@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 19:01 -0700
                                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 22:15 -0700
                                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-13 02:37 -0700
                                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 10:48 -0700
                                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light Maciej Woźniak <mlwozniak@wp.pl> - 2015-10-13 21:43 +0200
                                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 13:51 -0700
                                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 16:00 -0500
                                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 16:11 -0500
                                                                      Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-14 00:45 -0700
                                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light paparios <paparios@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 16:24 -0700
                                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-13 08:41 -0700
                                                          Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 22:08 -0700
                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-13 01:52 -0700
                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light mlwozniak@wp.pl - 2015-10-06 23:14 -0700
                                            Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-12 12:22 -0700
                                              Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 14:44 -0700
                                                Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-12 17:33 -0700
                                                  Re: A Particle Model of Light JanPB <filmart@gmail.com> - 2015-10-12 21:53 -0700
                                                    Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-10-13 08:26 -0700
          Re: A Particle Model of Light alsor@interia.pl - 2015-09-20 10:39 -0700

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#363250

FromNed Latham <nedlatham@internode.on.net>
Date2015-09-06 10:54 -0500
Message-ID<slrnmuoodk.1c0.nedlatham@woden.valhalla.oz>
In reply to#363238
Paul B. Andersen wrote:
> Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
> > John Heath wrote:
> > > Ned Latham wrote:

----snip----

> > > > Nope. It has never been tested. And it will never *be* tested
> > > > unless the speed of light from colour-shifted sources is
> > > > measured. See the article "A Particle Theory addendum:
> > > > Suggestions for Research".
> > >
> > > Name one person who measured the speed of light in a vacuum and
> > > found it not to be c.
> >
> > Idiot!  Nobody has convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source
>
> .. and found it to be different from c.

Because they've never measured it at all.

> The speed of light from moving sources has however
> been measured and found to be c.

False.

> https://paulba.no/paper/Alvager_et_al.pdf
> https://paulba.no/paper/Filippas_Fox.pdf

Larf. The second criticises the first. And they don't use a base line
long enough to measure the speed of EM radiatiuon.

> > Right now nobody can do it because the dingleberries who run the
> > physics establishment are not likely to provide funding. Far too
> > many reputations are at stake.
>
> How did Alveger and Filippas get their experiments funded?

El cheapo "experiments".

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#363276

FromHenry Wilson DSc. <hw@....>
Date2015-09-07 08:10 +1000
Message-ID<0cepualg7bf1r4i96d3fio001egiuk13gi@4ax.com>
In reply to#363238
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 13:05:38 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no>
wrote:

>On 06.09.2015 10:48, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:

>>> Name one person who measured the speed of light in a vacuum and found it not to be c.
>>
>> Idiot!  Nobody has convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source
>
>.. and found it to be different from c.
>
>The speed of light from moving sources has however
>been measured and found to be c.
>
>https://paulba.no/paper/Alvager_et_al.pdf
>https://paulba.no/paper/Filippas_Fox.pdf

Gawd! the silly list again. Sorry Paul I'm not in the mood for laughter at
present.

>> Right now nobody can do it because the dingleberries who run the physics
>> establishment are not likely to provide funding. Far too many reputations are
>> at stake.
>
>How did Alveger and Filippas get their experiments funded?


From other dingleberries I suppose.

__

Henry Wilson DSc.

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#363338

From"Paul B. Andersen" <relativity@paulba.no>
Date2015-09-07 13:28 +0200
Message-ID<msjscp$p2n$1@news.albasani.net>
In reply to#363276
On 07.09.2015 00:10, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 13:05:38 +0200, "Paul B. Andersen" wrote:
>
>> On 06.09.2015 10:48, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
>>>
>>> Idiot!  Nobody has convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source
>>
>> .. and found it to be different from c.
>>
>> The speed of light from moving sources has however
>> been measured and found to be c.
>>
>> https://paulba.no/paper/Alvager_et_al.pdf
>> https://paulba.no/paper/Filippas_Fox.pdf
>
> Gawd! the silly list again.

Indeed.
You can kick an scream and call the experimental
evidence 'silly', but you can't make it go away.

Here is more experimental evidence you can't make go away:
https://paulba.no/paper/index.html

> Sorry Paul I'm not in the mood for laughter at
> present.

I can understand that.
I will do the laughing. :-D

>>> Right now nobody can do it because the dingleberries who run the physics
>>> establishment are not likely to provide funding. Far too many reputations are
>>> at stake.
>>
>> How did Alveger and Filippas get their experiments funded?
>
>
>  From other dingleberries I suppose.

I see.
 From the dingleberries who run the physics establishment and who
are not likely to provide funding of experiments testing SR/GR
because too many reputations are at stake.

So they did risk to provide funding of the experiments it after all!


-- 
Paul

https://paulba.no/

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#363252

FromGary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
Date2015-09-06 09:19 -0700
Message-ID<b6b28ebf-1410-4cb1-a920-45c7411bb70b@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#363233
On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 2:48:35 AM UTC-6, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
>
> On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 19:11:42 -0700 (PDT), John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Name one person who measured the speed of light in a vacuum and found it
> > not to be c. 
> 
> Idiot! TWLS is always c, as expected according to ballistic theory.

So says the math-challenged nincompoop who can't even derive an equation
describing either ballistic or invariant c :-)))

> Nobody has convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source because it
> has been virtually impossible to do so until very recently. 

Complete bullshit and irrelevant anyway.  TWLS measurements do indeed
differentiate between ballistic and invariant c.  Only math-challenged
nincompoops fail to understand this and lying weasels refuse to admit it.

> Right now nobody can do it because the dingleberries who run the physics
> establishment are not likely to provide funding. Far too many reputations are
> at stake. 
> 
> Henry Wilson DSc.

Stupid conspiracy theorist nonsense.

Gary

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#363277

FromHenry Wilson DSc. <hw@....>
Date2015-09-07 08:13 +1000
Message-ID<efepuahl6027vdmv9bhloh4q9863fvu8jd@4ax.com>
In reply to#363252
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:19:29 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 2:48:35 AM UTC-6, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 19:11:42 -0700 (PDT), John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Name one person who measured the speed of light in a vacuum and found it
>> > not to be c. 
>> 
>> Idiot! TWLS is always c, as expected according to ballistic theory.
>
>So says the math-challenged nincompoop who can't even derive an equation
>describing either ballistic or invariant c :-)))
>
>> Nobody has convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source because it
>> has been virtually impossible to do so until very recently. 
>
>Complete bullshit and irrelevant anyway.  TWLS measurements do indeed
>differentiate between ballistic and invariant c.  Only math-challenged
>nincompoops fail to understand this and lying weasels refuse to admit it.

Hahahha! The religious fanatic speaks again. Hey Gary, when you say your
prayers tonight, don't forget toi ask your god for just one experiment that
supports Einstein.

>> Right now nobody can do it because the dingleberries who run the physics
>> establishment are not likely to provide funding. Far too many reputations are
>> at stake. 
>> 
>> Henry Wilson DSc.
>
>Stupid conspiracy theorist nonsense.
>
>Gary

 The Dingleberry Motto: 
    "The best way to cure stupidity is to keep on preaching it"

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#363283

FromGary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
Date2015-09-06 15:49 -0700
Message-ID<6ec1bf7b-d307-4ecf-b43a-f1f568ff965d@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#363277
On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 4:13:08 PM UTC-6, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
>
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:19:29 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 2:48:35 AM UTC-6, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
> > >
> > > Idiot! TWLS is always c, as expected according to ballistic theory.
> >
> > So says the math-challenged nincompoop who can't even derive an equation
> > describing either ballistic or invariant c :-)))
> >
> > > Nobody has convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source because it
> > > has been virtually impossible to do so until very recently. 
> >
> > Complete bullshit and irrelevant anyway.  TWLS measurements do indeed
> > differentiate between ballistic and invariant c.  Only math-challenged
> > nincompoops fail to understand this and lying weasels refuse to admit it.
> 
> Hahahha! The religious fanatic speaks again.

Hahaha!  The bullshit spewer who can't even derive a valid equation to
describe either ballistic light or invariant c.


> Hey Gary, when you say your prayers tonight, don't forget toi ask your
> god for just one experiment that supports Einstein.

No need.  The support is overwhelming.  Maybe I should pray that you will
become an honest person.  What's your real name, huh? :-)

> > > Right now nobody can do it because the dingleberries who run the
> > > physics establishment are not likely to provide funding. Far too
> > > many reputations are at stake. 
> > > 
> > > Henry Wilson DSc.
> >
> > Stupid conspiracy theorist nonsense.
> >
> > Gary
> 
>  The Dingleberry Motto: 
>     "The best way to cure stupidity is to keep on preaching it"

Lying reality-deniers:  The best way to make sense of the world is to
preach nonsense.

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#363254

Fromalsor@interia.pl
Date2015-09-06 09:26 -0700
Message-ID<04c12388-e155-4c90-8f38-b129431ef176@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#363233
W dniu niedziela, 6 września 2015 10:48:35 UTC+2 użytkownik Henry Wilson DSc.

> TWLS is always c, as expected according to ballistic theory. Nobody has
> convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source because it has been virtually
> impossible to do so until very recently. 

It is always measured for moving source only,
because the Earth moves without any doubt.
 
The result is just c, because the one-way speed is:

c(f) = 1/gamma / 1 - vcosf

therefore the TWLS is simply a harmonic mean:
c(f) and c(f+180), which is just c * (1-v^2) = c / gamma

then your local clock slows down gamma times,
thus you must measure just that: c / gamma * gamma = c.

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#363278

FromHenry Wilson DSc. <hw@....>
Date2015-09-07 08:14 +1000
Message-ID<ikepua5hs25s5hi1cgcqts8eot3g048tuc@4ax.com>
In reply to#363254
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT), alsor@interia.pl wrote:

>W dniu niedziela, 6 wrze?nia 2015 10:48:35 UTC+2 u?ytkownik Henry Wilson DSc.
>
>> TWLS is always c, as expected according to ballistic theory. Nobody has
>> convincingly measured OWLS using a moving source because it has been virtually
>> impossible to do so until very recently. 
>
>It is always measured for moving source only,
>because the Earth moves without any doubt.
> 
>The result is just c, because the one-way speed is:
>
>c(f) = 1/gamma / 1 - vcosf
>
>therefore the TWLS is simply a harmonic mean:
>c(f) and c(f+180), which is just c * (1-v^2) = c / gamma
>
>then your local clock slows down gamma times,
>thus you must measure just that: c / gamma * gamma = c.

Idiot! Chronic incurable idiot!

Don't you know what a TWLS experiment is?

__

Henry Wilson DSc.

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#363284

FromGary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
Date2015-09-06 15:59 -0700
Message-ID<aa8f9111-9373-4c2e-9bff-e23926cbc69a@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#363278
On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 4:14:33 PM UTC-6, Henry Wilson DSc. wrote:
>
> On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 09:26:51 -0700 (PDT), alsor@interia.pl wrote:
> >
> > therefore the TWLS is simply a harmonic mean:
> > c(f) and c(f+180), which is just c * (1-v^2) = c / gamma
> >
> > then your local clock slows down gamma times,
> > thus you must measure just that: c / gamma * gamma = c.
> 
> Idiot! Chronic incurable idiot!
> 
> Don't you know what a TWLS experiment is?
> 
> Henry Wilson DSc.

No, he doesn't.  Just like you can't understand meaningful equations for
a TWLS experiment.  It's really, really funny to see two delusional
nincompoops arguing with each other about their defective and
contradictory "theories" -- each of them shouting at each other and
calling each other idiots.  They are both right when they do that :-)
 

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#363407

FromHenry Wilson DSc. <hw@....>
Date2015-09-08 06:34 +1000
Message-ID<n6truad1jdltq0fedjcg0covfottmdcej3@4ax.com>
In reply to#363284
On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 15:59:22 -0700 (PDT), Gary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
wrote:


>> Idiot! Chronic incurable idiot!
>> 
>> Don't you know what a TWLS experiment is?
>> 
>> Henry Wilson DSc.
>
>No, he doesn't.  Just like you can't understand meaningful equations for
>a TWLS experiment.  It's really, really funny to see two delusional
>nincompoops arguing with each other about their defective and
>contradictory "theories" -- each of them shouting at each other and
>calling each other idiots.  They are both right when they do that :-)
> 

 The Dingleberry Motto: 
    "The best way to cure stupidity is to keep on preaching it"

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#363574

Fromalsor@interia.pl
Date2015-09-09 10:31 -0700
Message-ID<097de133-e796-49b9-af2c-abc2d827cdd7@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#363278
W dniu poniedziałek, 7 września 2015 00:14:33 UTC+2 użytkownik Henry Wilson 

> >It is always measured for moving source only,
> >because the Earth moves without any doubt.
> > 
> >The result is just c, because the one-way speed is:
> >
> >c(f) = 1/gamma / 1 - vcosf
> >
> >therefore the TWLS is simply a harmonic mean:
> >c(f) and c(f+180), which is just c * (1-v^2) = c / gamma
> >
> >then your local clock slows down gamma times,
> >thus you must measure just that: c / gamma * gamma = c.
> 
> Idiot! Chronic incurable idiot!
> 
> Don't you know what a TWLS experiment is?

The pseudoscience doesn't care, nor use any experiment,
therefore you are fully justified. :)

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#363240

FromAnton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>
Date2015-09-06 14:54 +0300
Message-ID<20150906145441.bfbbf742aa6bf5138e53a5c8@gmail.com>
In reply to#363198
John Heath:

> Name one person who measured the speed of light in
> a vacuum and found it not to be c.

Eugene Shtyrkov claims to have done so in his "Ether
Drift in Experiments with Geostationary Satellites":

   http://bourabai.kz/shtyrkov/shtyrkov.pdf

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#363272

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2015-09-06 22:48 +0200
Message-ID<2105091.gaWzm2Luk0@PointedEars.de>
In reply to#363240
Anton Shepelev wrote:

> John Heath:
>> Name one person who measured the speed of light in
>> a vacuum and found it not to be c.
> 
> Eugene Shtyrkov claims to have done so in his "Ether
> Drift in Experiments with Geostationary Satellites":
> 
>    http://bourabai.kz/shtyrkov/shtyrkov.pdf

Have you read this? 

The abstract starts with:

“The ether drift due to motion of the Earth has been discovered in the 
process of tracking of a geostationary satellite. […]”

And the paper starts as follows:

“Introduction

In earlier, and unsuccessful, attempts to detect motion of the Earth, the 
issue of entrainment of the luminiferous medium (ether) by moving bodies was 
not properly taken into account.  Ether was supposed to pass freely through 
any body, and through the Earth itself, and it was assumed that the velocity 
of ether drift is equal and opposite in direction to that of the Earth. […]”

See also: 
<https://books.google.com/books?id=KnzBDjnGIgYC&pg=PA1113&lpg=PA1113&dq=Observation+of+Ether+Drift+in+Experiments+with+Geostationary+Satellites&source=bl&ots=7RrohYLsDG&sig=_pVlG3YyVGVKazPto1w2b3GRPqg&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAmoVChMInYPFsJzjxwIVQ1wUCh09twMQ#v=onepage&q=Observation%20of%20Ether%20Drift%20in%20Experiments%20with%20Geostationary%20Satellites&f=false>

It should not be too surprising that someone who believes in the existence 
of a luminiferous ether, despite the many experiments in the past 195 years 
that *all* yielded a null result [1], and who denies relativistic redshift, 
despite its usefulness in astrophysics and cosmology [2], claims to have 
observed a different speed of light as well.  Given the only *two* 
references of that paper (of 1926 and 1929, respectively), I blame 
dysfunctional brain cells due to prolonged exposure to Siberian climate. 

Almost needless to say that this 2005 paper, of the “Proceedings of the NPA” 
(Natural Philosophy Alliance, “a group that believes mainstream physics and 
cosmology are wrong”¹), Vol. 2, No. 1, apparently has never passed any peer 
review of any scientific journal to be taken seriously, if it has even been 
submitted to one.

So perhaps the challenge should be reworded into “Name one person who does 
not believe in the existence of a luminiferous ether and measured the speed 
of light in a vacuum and found it to be not c.”  Or something similar.


PointedEars
___________
¹  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPA>, “Organizations”
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science_organizations#Natural_Philosophy_Alliance>
   “an organization that advocates the position that some ideas thought
    well-settled in contemporary science (particularly physics and
    cosmology) are fundamentally flawed” (substantiated by the reference,
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science_organizations#cite_note-web-9>)

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminiferous_aether#Negative_aether-drift_experiments>
[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift>

-- 
Q: Where are offenders sentenced for light crimes?  
A: To a prism.

(from: WolframAlpha)

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#363273

FromThomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Date2015-09-06 22:52 +0200
Message-ID<3993886.kluElXhUpk@PointedEars.de>
In reply to#363272
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Anton Shepelev wrote:
>>    http://bourabai.kz/shtyrkov/shtyrkov.pdf
> 
> […]
> Almost needless to say that this 2005 paper, of the “Proceedings of the
> NPA” (Natural Philosophy Alliance, “a group that believes mainstream
> physics and cosmology are wrong”¹), Vol. 2, No. 1, apparently has never
> passed any peer review of any scientific journal to be taken seriously, if
> it has even been submitted to one.
> […]
> ___________
> ¹  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPA>, “Organizations”
>    
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science_organizations#Natural_Philosophy_Alliance>
>    “an organization that advocates the position that some ideas thought
>     well-settled in contemporary science (particularly physics and
>     cosmology) are fundamentally flawed” (substantiated by the reference,
>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science_organizations#cite_note-web-9>)

I meant to refer to the reference, not the footnote (which may be modified):

<https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131646/http://www.worldnpa.org/site/about/>


PointedEars
-- 
Q: What happens when electrons lose their energy?  
A: They get Bohr'ed.

(from: WolframAlpha)

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#363279

FromHenry Wilson DSc. <hw@....>
Date2015-09-07 08:19 +1000
Message-ID<huepualf9r4eecilfklrgt2p3jdd7rgsp8@4ax.com>
In reply to#363273
On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 22:52:22 +0200, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars@web.de> wrote:

>Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>
>> Anton Shepelev wrote:
>>>    http://bourabai.kz/shtyrkov/shtyrkov.pdf
>> 
>> […]
>> Almost needless to say that this 2005 paper, of the “Proceedings of the
>> NPA” (Natural Philosophy Alliance, “a group that believes mainstream
>> physics and cosmology are wrong”¹), Vol. 2, No. 1, apparently has never
>> passed any peer review of any scientific journal to be taken seriously, if
>> it has even been submitted to one.
>> […]
>> ___________
>> ¹  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPA>, “Organizations”
>>    
><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science_organizations#Natural_Philosophy_Alliance>
>>    “an organization that advocates the position that some ideas thought
>>     well-settled in contemporary science (particularly physics and
>>     cosmology) are fundamentally flawed” (substantiated by the reference,
>>    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe_science_organizations#cite_note-web-9>)
>
>I meant to refer to the reference, not the footnote (which may be modified):
>
><https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131646/http://www.worldnpa.org/site/about/>
>
>
>PointedEars

You ears might have points but your messages certainly do not.

__

Henry Wilson DSc.

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#363298

Fromantonius@freeshell.de (Anton Shepelev)
Date2015-09-07 00:59 +0000
Message-ID<msinh5$v1e$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#363272
Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn to Anton Shepelev:

> > John Heath:
> >
> > > Name  one  person  who  measured  the speed of
> > > light in a vacuum and found it not to be c.
> >
> > Eugene Shtyrkov claims to have done  so  in  his
> > "Ether  Drift  in Experiments with Geostationary
> > Satellites":
> >
> >     http://bourabai.kz/shtyrkov/shtyrkov.pdf
> >
> Have you read this?

I have, though I misdoubt me that you have read any-
thing beyond the introduction, have you?

> The abstract starts with:
>
>   The  ether  drift due to motion of the Earth has
>   been discovered in the process of tracking of  a
>   geostationary satellite. [???]???
>
> And the paper starts as follows:
>
>   In earlier, and unsuccessful, attempts to detect
>   motion of the Earth, the issue of entrainment of
>   the luminiferous medium (ether) by moving bodies
>   was not properly taken into account.  Ether  was
>   supposed  to  pass  freely through any body, and
>   through the Earth itself,  and  it  was  assumed
>   that  the  velocity  of ether drift is equal and
>   opposite in direction to that of the Earth. [???]???
>
> It should not be too surprising that  someone  who
> believes in the existence of a luminiferous ether,
> despite the many experiments in the past 195 years
> that *all* yielded a null result[1] ->

This is a misinformation for those who never care to
read the original papers.  Dayton Miller consistent-
ly  observed  a  small  effect, unconnected with any
earthly factors but well-correlated with the orbital
motion of the Earth:

http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Miller_1933/Miller1933_ocr.pdf

See  mr.  Miller's address at the Mt. Wilson confer-
ence for details on the hardware and the procedure:

http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Conference_1927/Conference_1927.pdf

If you will carefully read just these two  documents
you shall see that the "null result" is a falsifica-
tion and that Shankland's analysis fails to  explain
Miller's positive result.  They also tell why numer-
ous other repetitions failed.

There are  other  positive  ether-wind  experiments,
which no one to my knowledge has refuted.

> -> and  who  denies relativistic redshift, despite
> its  usefulness  in  astrophysics   and   cosmolo-
> gy[2], ->

Redshift  is  accounted in all ether theories mostly
through photons' loss of enery as they  move  though
viscous  either.  Since gravitation is thought to be
caused by either a pressure or a density gradient in
the  ether,  gravitational  redshift and lensing are
also explainable.

> -> claims to have observed a  different  speed  of
> light as well.  Given the only *two* references of
> that paper (of 1926  and  1929,  respectively),  I
> blame  dysfunctional  brain cells due to prolonged
> exposure to Siberian climate.

So you have read the  introduction  and  the  refer-
ences, skipping that optional part in between?

> Almost  needless  to  say that this 2005 paper, of
> the ???Proceedings of the NPA???  (Natural  Philosophy
> Alliance,   ???a   group  that  believes  mainstream
> physics and cosmology are wrong?????), Vol. 2, No. 1,
> apparently has never passed any peer review of any
> scientific journal to be taken  seriously,  if  it
> has even been submitted to one.

That  is  an  appeal to authority -- a very unscien-
tistly sort of conduct, especially if  one  has  not
read  the  content  of the paper one so fiercely at-
tacks.

> So perhaps the challenge should be  reworded  into
> ???Name one person who does not believe in the exis-
> tence of a luminiferous  ether  and  measured  the
> speed  of light in a vacuum and found it to be not
> c.???  Or something similar.

Useless question, for absolute motion is  incompati-
ble  a  lack  of  the  ether.   This is why Einstein
wrote:

  I believe that I have really found  the  relation-
  ship between gravitation and electricity, assuming
  that the Miller experiments are based on a  funda-
  mental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity the-
  ory collapses like a house of cards.

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#363310

FromGary Harnagel <hitlong@yahoo.com>
Date2015-09-06 19:42 -0700
Message-ID<e70bf7f7-6419-4056-90ee-9965f93c155b@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#363298
On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 7:01:10 PM UTC-6, Anton Shepelev wrote:
>
> Dayton Miller consistently  observed  a  small  effect, unconnected
> with any earthly factors but well-correlated with the orbital motion
> of the Earth:
> 
> http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Miller_1933/Miller1933_ocr.pdf
> 
> See  mr.  Miller's address at the Mt. Wilson confer-
> ence for details on the hardware and the procedure:
> 
> http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Conference_1927/Conference_1927.pdf
> 
> If you will carefully read just these two  documents
> you shall see that the "null result" is a falsifica-
> tion and that Shankland's analysis fails to  explain
> Miller's positive result.  They also tell why numer-
> ous other repetitions failed.

Miller unintentionally introduced errors which he didn't account for:

http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0608/0608238.pdf

"This paper presents a complete explanation for his anomalous result by:
a) showing that his results are not statistically significant,
b) describing in detail how flaws in his analysis procedure produced a
false signal with precisely the properties he expected, and
c) presenting a quantitative model of his systematic drift that shows
there is no real signal in his data."

> There are  other  positive  ether-wind  experiments,
> which no one to my knowledge has refuted.

"Michelson and Morley (1887) analyzed their data using a data reduction
algorithm quite similar to Miller's, and therefore their result suffers
from the same serious flaws discussed above. They did, however, have a
smaller systematic error, and they contented themselves with putting an
upper bound on the earth's speed relative to the ether of 7.5 km/s."

These "other" experiments you refer to but don't specify will most likely
be found to have the same defects as Miller's analysis.

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#363825

Fromantonius@freeshell.de (Anton Shepelev)
Date2015-09-11 22:03 +0000
Message-ID<msvj2s$see$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#363310
Gary Harnagel to Anton Shepelev:

> > Dayton  Miller consistently observed a small ef-
> > fect, unconnected with any earthly  factors  but
> > well-correlated  with  the orbital motion of the
> > Earth:
> >
> >    http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Miller_1933/Miller1933_ocr.pdf
> >
> > See mr. Miller's address at the Mt. Wilson  con-
> > ference for details on the hardware and the pro-
> > cedure:
> >
> >    http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Conference_1927/Conference_1927.pdf
> >
> > If you will carefully read just these two  docu-
> > ments  you shall see that the "null result" is a
> > falsification  and  that  Shankland's   analysis
> > fails to explain Miller's positive result.  They
> > also tell why numerous other repetitions failed.
>
> Miller unintentionally introduced errors which  he
> didn't account for:
>
>    http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0608/0608238.pdf
>
>    "This paper presents a complete explanation for
>     his anomalous result by:
>
>     a. showing that his results are not  statisti-
>        cally significant,
>     b. describing in detail how flaws in his anal-
>        ysis procedure produced a false signal with
>        precisely the properties he expected, and
>     c. presenting a quantitative model of his sys-
>        tematic drift that shows there is  no  real
>        signal in his data."

Thomas  J.  Roberts  must be famous, for others have
used his article in  arguments  with  me  about  the
Miller experiments.  His paper is primarily based on
Miller's large 1933 article referenced above,  so  I
wonder why he states that "because of the 180 degree
symmetry of the interferometer, any real signal  can
depend only on orientation modulo 180 degrees," when
a full-period, first-order effect  was  detected  by
Miller  and explained by Hicks, whose calculations I
have at hand should you need them.

To be concise, the interferometer can't be perfectly
symmetrical  if  any  interference is to be observed
because fringes of finite width appear when the  two
wavefronts  are slightly non-parallel.  This asymme-
try causes a full-period effect from the ether wind,
which Roberts assumes does not exists ascibing it to
the systematic error.  Miller summarizes:

   In the theory of Hicks it is shown that when  the
   periodic  variation in the relative phases of the
   two beams of light in the  inter-ferometer  takes
   place  with  the  mirrors  adjusted  as in actual
   practice,  there  is  introduced  an   additional
   effect  which  is  periodic in a full turn of the
   instrument. The  amplitude  of  this  full-period
   effect,  which  varies  inversely as the width of
   the fringes being used at the  time  of  observa-
   tion,  is  about  equal  to  the amplitude of the
   ether-drift effect when there are  eight  fringes
   in the field of view; with the adjustment usually
   secured for six fringes in the field of view, the
   full-period  effect  is  smaller  than  the half-
   period effect.

That may  explain  the  deviation  of  the  marker-9
points  from  the  line  between markers 1 and 17 in
fig. 3, in which Roberts sees evidence  for  a  non-
linear  systematic  drift.  Note how the majority of
the marker-9 measurements are above the linear drift
graph  showing the postive half-wave of the full-pe-
riod effect.

His other careless statement that Miller arbitrarily
chose  the  linear  model of the systematic drift is
also wrong, for in that same 1933 paper  Miller  ex-
plains that from the many tests he found temperature
effects to maintain a constant influence though each
50-second  turn  due to the high thermal capacity of
the interferometer, and a constant derivative  calls
for  a  linear  function,  which  may not affect the
clarity of any harmonic signal.   Therefore  Roberts
is  wrong  in calculating the error bars before sub-
tracting the linear model.   The  error  would  have
been  several  times  lower if had done so after the
subtraction, which may be thought an essential  part
of  the measurement procedure.  One should calculate
the dispersion of the measured signal, which is  the
difference  of the fringe shift from the linear tem-
prerature drift.

Quoth Miller:

   The observation is a differential one and can  be
   made with considerable certainty under all condi-
   tions. Disturbances, due to temperature or  other
   causes  lasting  for  a  few seconds or for a few
   minutes, might affect the actual  amount  of  the
   observed  displacement and give less certain val-
   ues for the velocity of the ether-drift while, at
   the  same time, the position of maximum displace-
   ment is not altered.

I would add that rapid disturbances will be  reduced
during  the averaging, as well as any additive noise
originating outside the interferometer and therefore
unperiodic in its turn.

Neither  does Roberts explain the way that his hypo-
thetical instrumental error could  produce  a  sinu-
soidal  pseudosignal with a constant galactic orien-
tantion:

   The curves for the three epochs were simply aver-
   aged  and it was found that when plotted in rela-
   tion to local civil time, the curves are in  such
   phase  relations that they nearly neutralize each
   other; the average effect for  the  three  epochs
   thus  plotted is very small and unsystematic. The
   curves of  observation  were  then  plotted  with
   respect to sidereal time and a very striking con-
   sistency of their principal  characteristics  was
   shown  to  exist, not only among the three curves
   for azimuth and those for  magnitude,  but,  what
   was  more  impressive,  there  was  a consistency
   between the two sets of curves,  as  though  they
   were  related  to  a common cause. The average of
   the curves, on sidereal time, showed conclusively
   that  the observed effect is dependent upon side-
   real time and is independent of diurnal and  sea-
   sonal  changes  of  temperature and other terres-
   trial causes and  that  it  is  a  cosmical  phe-
   nomenon.

How  can  an instumental error track the time of day
and the season of the year in precisely the  way  to
neutralize them, maintaining a constant galactic di-
rection in *all* the  experiments  over  the  years?
Roberts does not care to anwer that.

He  is  also wrong about Miller's averaging of half-
turns as part of data analysis.  Miller did no  such
thing and employed harmonic analysis to his full-pe-
riod curves.  He explains:

   These charted ???curves??? of the actual observations
   contain  not  only  the second-order, half-period
   ether-drift effect, but also a first-order, full-
   period  effect,  any  possible  effects of higher
   orders, together with all instrumental and  acci-
   dental errors of observation.

Why  does  Roberts misinform us, presenting Miller's
visualisation procedure intended for "a  preliminary
study  of  the  observations" for the one he used in
"the definitive study of  the  ether-drift  effect?"
The  1933  article describes both procedures and re-
veals Roberts's confusion.

One of Miller's errors in Roberts's opinion  is  the
averaging  of  data, so I wonder why he has retained
the supposed averaging of the half-turns in his  re-
analysis,  while  Miller  himself did not employ it.
Was it not the easier to impose  his  hypothesis  of
the  second  harmonic's  emerging  from the Brownian
spectrum of the instrumental drift?  I would he  had
practised as he preaches and had analysed the uncom-
pressed, full-period measurements,  even  as  Miller
did  finding  that both the first and the third har-
monics were always smaller than the second one (fig.
21 in his article).  Or you may look at the full-pe-
riod graph in the picture of Miller's sample record.

Might Roberts have intentionally analyzed the  wrong
algorithm to hide the uncomfortably small first har-
monic?  Under his hypothesis it should dominate  the
full-period  spectrum, and if Miller's original pro-
cedure had been applied to the full turns  he  would
have  detected  an apparent full-period nearly-sinu-
soidal singal with a magnitude twice as high as that
of  the purported ether drift.  But, as shown above,
this is simply not the  case,  and  Roberts's  drift
model  fails  to  account  for the prevalence of the
second harmonic in the full-period spectrum.

Therefore,  his  explanation  of   "how   flaws   in
[Miller's]  analysis procedure produced a false sig-
nal with precisely the properties  he  expected"  is
invalid,  because  it is based on a wrong assumption
about the original procedure:

   This is a simple consequence of the fact that the
   1???2-turn  Fourier  component  is  the lowest fre-
   quency retained by the  algorithm,  and  it  will
   dominate because of the falling spectrum.  When a
   single frequency bin dominates the Fourier  spec-
   trum,  the signal itself looks approximately like
   a sinusoid with that  period.   Using  this  data
   reduction  algorithm,  any  noise  with a falling
   spectrum will end up  looking  like  an  approxi-
   mately  sinusoidal  ???signal??? with a period of 1???2
   turn -- precisely what Miller was looking for.

Roberts claims to have found a model of the  system-
atic  drift  in  Miller's experiment, but he has not
revealed this model even for  a  single  twenty-turn
set so that readers might study it by themselves.  I
for one should subtract it from  the  raw  data  and
look  at  the result, because Roberts did it in fre-
quency domain which is rather  unituitive  and  con-
tains  quantization and other errors of the discrete
Fourier transformation.

Roberts's only precaution against unintentional  in-
clusion of the real signal into the systematic drift
is the subtraction of the first turn  from  all  the
other turns.  It does not seem a statistically right
operation when the noise is many times more powerful
than  the  signal,  as it is in our case.  The noise
may have conspired completely to mask any singal  in
this  turn.   To  attain any degree of certainty one
would have to repeat the subtraction with the  other
turns as the subtrahend and compare the results.  If
they would be very different then the  procedure  is
wrong.

That being said, I am not sure that the half-period-
ic component belongs to the systematic drift  rather
than  to  the  actual signal.  The result of his re-
analysis may be a mere consequence his data-process-
ing  procedure, just as he thinks about Miller's own
result.

Leaving the nature of the instrumental  drift  unex-
plained  and  uncommented  upon, Roberts's "explana-
tion" seems but an abstract  mathematical  excercize
with  little physical value because it offers no in-
sight into the physical cause of this drift.

> > There are other positive ether-wind experiments,
> > which no one to my knowledge has refuted.
>
> "Michelson  and  Morley (1887) analyzed their data
> using a data reduction algorithm quite similar  to
> Miller's,  and therefore their result suffers from
> the same serious flaws discussed above. They  did,
> however, have a smaller systematic error, and they
> contented themselves with putting an  upper  bound
> on  the earth's speed relative to the ether of 7.5
> km/s."

Which is  close  to  Miller's  result  but  somewhat
smaller  because the experiment was performed closer
to the ground.

> These "other" experiments you refer to  but  don't
> specify will most likely be found to have the same
> defects as Miller's analysis.

I don't think so, but would  postpone  this  subject
till  another  post,  for  this  one  is already big
enough.

P.S.: Do read Miller's 1933 article linked above and
      preferable  his  address  at the conference as
      well.
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#363954 — Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light)

FromTom Roberts <tjroberts137@sbcglobal.net>
Date2015-09-12 23:14 -0500
SubjectDayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light)
Message-ID<6JSdnUeUyuGjZWnInZ2dnUU7_82dnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#363298
On 9/6/15 9/6/15   7:59 PM, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> Dayton Miller consistent-
> ly  observed  a  small  effect, unconnected with any
> earthly factors but well-correlated with the orbital
> motion of the Earth[...]
> If you will carefully read just these two  documents
> you shall see that the "null result" is a falsifica-
> tion and that Shankland's analysis fails to  explain
> Miller's positive result.  They also tell why numer-
> ous other repetitions failed.

Miller's "signal" was statistically insignificant [#]. It is essentially his 
instrument's (thermal ?) drift aliased into the same bin where any signal would 
be, because he used a FLAWED analysis algorithm. It is sinusoidal and LOOKED 
like a signal would look, because of the properties of his noise and the comb 
filter he (inadvertently) applied.

	In his day, before Shannon, he could not have known this.
	But today, with modern DSP techniques it is obvious.
	Moreover, back then they did not routinely perform an
	error analysis. Today we do, and the basic error analysis
	of his data shows that the errorbars are MUCH larger than
	the variations in his data -- his "signal" is NOT
	statistically significant [#]. And since he averaged his data
	down to just a few frequency bins (in DSP-speak this is a
	comb filter), the aliased ~ 1/f noise looks like a sinusoid
	with frequency corresponding to the lowest bin (where any
	signal would be).

	[#] this is bulletproof, because we know how averaging affects
	the errorbars on the mean.


>    [quoting Einstein]
>    I believe that I have really found  the  relation-
>    ship between gravitation and electricity, assuming
>    that the Miller experiments are based on a  funda-
>    mental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity the-
>    ory collapses like a house of cards.

Miller's experiments WERE based on a fundamental error (actually several of 
them). Einstein and relativity are vindicated.


See my paper about this: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608238
It discusses the above criticisms. It also applies a model of his instrument's 
drift plus an orientation-dependent signal. The signal is consistent with zero 
in all runs in my dataset, and exactly zero in all reliable runs. The drift is 
HIGHLY nonlinear, negating the basic assumption of Miller's analysis algorithm. 
I used some of Miller's original data sheets (amazingly, copies are still 
available from the CWRU archives).


In a following article you said:

> Thomas  J.  Roberts  must be famous, for others have
> used his article in  arguments  with  me  about  the
> Miller experiments.

Probably because it is the only MODERN analysis of his data (I used copies of 
his original data sheets from the CWRU archives).


> I
> wonder why he states that "because of the 180 degree
> symmetry of the interferometer, any real signal  can
> depend only on orientation modulo 180 degrees," when
> a full-period, first-order effect  was  detected  by
> Miller  and explained by Hicks, whose calculations I
> have at hand should you need them.

The 180-degree symmetry is OBVIOUS in his drawings. And since his basic signal 
was statistically not significant by a VERY large margin, I have no doubt that 
the "full-period first-order effect" is likewise not statistically significant.

For instance, if a linear drift was assumed the whole thing is useless, because 
the drift of that instrument is HIGHLY nonlinear.

Similarly, if data were averaged then the implicit comb filter and aliasing 
destroy any usefulness in the result.


> To be concise, the interferometer can't be perfectly
> symmetrical

Sure. But this is PHYSICS, not any "perfect" system. The question is whether the 
asymmetries are SIGNIFICANT. They surely are not.


> if  any  interference is to be observed
> because fringes of finite width appear when the  two
> wavefronts  are slightly non-parallel.  This asymme-
> try causes a full-period effect from the ether wind,
> which Roberts assumes does not exists ascibing it to
> the systematic error.  Miller summarizes:
>
>    In the theory of Hicks it is shown that when  the
>    periodic  variation in the relative phases of the
>    two beams of light in the  inter-ferometer  takes
>    place  with  the  mirrors  adjusted  as in actual
>    practice,  there  is  introduced  an   additional
>    effect  which  is  periodic in a full turn of the
>    instrument. The  amplitude  of  this  full-period
>    effect,  which  varies  inversely as the width of
>    the fringes being used at the  time  of  observa-
>    tion,  is  about  equal  to  the amplitude of the
>    ether-drift effect when there are  eight  fringes
>    in the field of view; with the adjustment usually
>    secured for six fringes in the field of view, the
>    full-period  effect  is  smaller  than  the half-
>    period effect.
>
> That may  explain  the  deviation  of  the  marker-9
> points  from  the  line  between markers 1 and 17 in
> fig. 3, in which Roberts sees evidence  for  a  non-
> linear  systematic  drift.  Note how the majority of
> the marker-9 measurements are above the linear drift
> graph  showing the postive half-wave of the full-pe-
> riod effect.

Look at figure 3 of my paper -- I count 10 points above the line, 5 below, and 5 
on it. That's hardly decisive.

Look at Figure 5 -- the errorbars are ~ 0.8 fringe, which is MUCH larger than 
the difference point-to-line of any turn in Fig 3. So that IN-decisive 
"half-wave" you think you see is NOT significant.

	Amateurs look for patterns, professionals look at errorbars.

You see a pattern, I see errorbars that show that it is in your imagination, not 
the data.

	Humans are extremely good pattern-finding machines, and often
	find patterns where none are present. Some people see "the
	Virgin Mary" in water stains and burnt toast, while you (and
	Miller) see a "signal" here.


> His other careless statement that Miller arbitrarily
> chose  the  linear  model of the systematic drift is
> also wrong,

It was not "careless" at all -- LOOK at figure 10 of my paper -- the drift is 
HIGHLY nonlinear, for every orientation.


> for in that same 1933 paper  Miller  ex-
> plains that from the many tests he found temperature
> effects to maintain a constant influence though each
> 50-second  turn  due to the high thermal capacity of
> the interferometer, and a constant derivative  calls
> for  a  linear  function,  which  may not affect the
> clarity of any harmonic signal.

Nevertheless an actual model of the drift shows it to be HIGHLY nonlinear (fig 
10, and also figs 2 and 3). Look at figure 4 of my paper -- the variation in the 
data at this particular orientation is CLEARLY dominated by the systematic drift.

I challenge ANYBODY to look at figure 2 (which is just Miller's raw data with 
his adjustments restored), and claim that the drift is "linear"!

	(at the level of ~0.5 fringe one could claim that for turns
	 1-3 and 14-18, but most turns are nowhere close to linear.)


> Therefore  Roberts
> is  wrong  in calculating the error bars before sub-
> tracting the linear model.   The  error  would  have
> been  several  times  lower if had done so after the
> subtraction, which may be thought an essential  part
> of  the measurement procedure.  One should calculate
> the dispersion of the measured signal, which is  the
> difference  of the fringe shift from the linear tem-
> prerature drift.

I did it both ways while preparing the article. There's no significant 
difference in that the errorbars are MUCH larger than the variation in the 
means. IOW the drift is HIGHLY NONLINEAR, and subtracting a linear drift does 
not affect much.


> Quoth Miller:
>
>    The observation is a differential one and can  be
>    made with considerable certainty under all condi-
>    tions. Disturbances, due to temperature or  other
>    causes  lasting  for  a  few seconds or for a few
>    minutes, might affect the actual  amount  of  the
>    observed  displacement and give less certain val-
>    ues for the velocity of the ether-drift while, at
>    the  same time, the position of maximum displace-
>    ment is not altered.
>
> I would add that rapid disturbances will be  reduced
> during  the averaging, as well as any additive noise
> originating outside the interferometer and therefore
> unperiodic in its turn.

Like Miller, you CLEARLY do not understand the TERRIBLE effects of averaging. It 
completely hid from him what was really going on. Had he just plotted out my 
Figure 2, he would KNOW that his assumptions were simply not valid. All you need 
to do is LOOK AT FIGURE 2 to see your claims are nonsense.

	To claim to find a "signal" in Fig 2, with amplitude ~ 0.1
	fringe is just LUDICROUS.

	[Had he been able to make the instrument perform like turns 1-3
	 all the time, then he might have had something. But out of the
	 ~1,000 data runs that I have looked at, whenever he did so it
	 CLEARLY had no signal at all, just a smooth drift (see my final
	 two paragraphs below).]


> Neither  does Roberts explain the way that his hypo-
> thetical instrumental error could  produce  a  sinu-
> soidal  pseudosignal with a constant galactic orien-
> tantion:

OF COURSE NOT! There is no significant signal. Yes, there are variations, and if 
one INSISTS on interpreting them as "signal" then it must have some orientation.


> How  can  an instumental error track the time of day
> and the season of the year in precisely the  way  to
> neutralize them, maintaining a constant galactic di-
> rection in *all* the  experiments  over  the  years?

Experimenter's bias. He knew what he wanted to find. As do you.

Re-plot with errorbars, and you will find that there is a point in one 
direction, with errorbars that span the sky!


> He  is  also wrong about Miller's averaging of half-
> turns as part of data analysis.  Miller did no  such
> thing and employed harmonic analysis to his full-pe-
> riod curves.

Just LOOK at my Fig 1 (Miller's Fig 8). You are wrong.


> Why  does  Roberts misinform us, presenting Miller's
> visualisation procedure intended for "a  preliminary
> study  of  the  observations" for the one he used in
> "the definitive study of  the  ether-drift  effect?"
> The  1933  article describes both procedures and re-
> veals Roberts's confusion.

No "misinform" or "confusion". Miller's "signal" was not statistically 
significant. Nothing can change that. Including your attempts to dismiss it.


> One of Miller's errors in Roberts's opinion  is  the
> averaging  of  data, so I wonder why he has retained
> the supposed averaging of the half-turns in his  re-
> analysis,  while  Miller  himself did not employ it.

READ THE PAPER. I did no averaging at all in part IV, my new analysis of 67 of 
his original data sheets.


> I would he  had
> practised as he preaches and had analysed the uncom-
> pressed, full-period measurements,

READ THE PAPER. I analyzed all 20 turns of each run, with no averaging at all.


> Might Roberts have intentionally analyzed the  wrong
> algorithm to hide the uncomfortably small first har-
> monic?

I analyzed Miller's ORIGINAL DATA SHEETS. Not his "algorithm" (which I did 
discuss in parts II and III of the paper, but did not use in any way in part IV).

The first harmonic, and any other harmonic, is IRRELEVANT in my analysis.


> Roberts claims to have found a model of the  system-
> atic  drift  in  Miller's experiment, but he has not
> revealed this model even for  a  single  twenty-turn
> set so that readers might study it by themselves.

READ THE PAPER. This is my Fig. 10. The text describes in detail how it was 
obtained. The algorithm has to be applied to each data run individually, because 
the drift is HIGHLY idiosyncratic to each run.

	Basically the signal must be the same at each orientation,
	while the drift happens sequentially. The technique I
	used cleanly and rigorously separates out the orientation-
	dependent part from the data, presenting just the drift in
	Fig. 10.


> I
> for one should subtract it from  the  raw  data  and
> look  at  the result,

OBVIOUSLY you did not read the paper. That is NOT the correct thing to do, and 
not what I did.

I fit the sum of
     an arbitrary orientation-dependent function
plus
     the systematic drift (determined as described in the text)
to the data for each of my 67 runs. Ignoring 11 clearly unstable runs, the 
result for the orientation-dependent signal is ZERO (Fig 11).


> because Roberts did it in fre-
> quency domain which is rather  unituitive  and  con-
> tains  quantization and other errors of the discrete
> Fourier transformation.

OBVIOUSLY you did not read the paper. Part IV is all in the "time domain" 
(really orientation over 20 turns).

My discussion of "frequency domain" was in part III, where I used DSP techniques 
to explain where Miller's "signal" came from (his noise), and why it looks 
sinusoidal (it is 1/f noise aliased into the lowest frequency bin, where any 
real signal would be; when one Fourier bin dominates, the time-domain plot looks 
sinusoidal with that frequency).


> Roberts's only precaution against unintentional  in-
> clusion of the real signal into the systematic drift
> is the subtraction of the first turn  from  all  the
> other turns.  It does not seem a statistically right
> operation when the noise is many times more powerful
> than  the  signal,  as it is in our case.

You OBVIOUSLY do not understand. That enables me to separate the 
orientation-dependent part of the data from the drift. And it does so 
INDEPENDENT of whatever noise was present in the first turn.


> The noise
> may have conspired completely to mask any singal  in
> this  turn.

Doesn't matter, because:
   A) the subtraction removes any orientation dependence REGARDLESS of
      whatever noise was present in the first turn,
and
   B) the fit will find any orientation-dependent, because it uses all
      20 turns.

You REALLY need to READ THE PAPER and understand what I actually did. Your 
GUESSES are wrong.


> Leaving the nature of the instrumental  drift  unex-
> plained  and  uncommented  upon, Roberts's "explana-
> tion" seems but an abstract  mathematical  excercize
> with  little physical value because it offers no in-
> sight into the physical cause of this drift.

You REALLY need to READ THE PAPER and understand what I actually did. Your 
GUESSES are wrong.

Yes, my analysis does not identify the source of the drift. But it DOES extract 
whatever orientation-dependent signal is present in the data, and that signal is 
ZERO.

	THINK ABOUT IT: no analysis of his data sheets can possibly
	identify sources of drift -- that requires examining and
	operating the instrument and its environment.


>> "Michelson  and  Morley (1887) analyzed their data
>> using a data reduction algorithm quite similar  to
>> Miller's,  and therefore their result suffers from
>> the same serious flaws discussed above. They  did,
>> however, have a smaller systematic error, and they
>> contented themselves with putting an  upper  bound
>> on  the earth's speed relative to the ether of 7.5
>> km/s."
>
> Which is  close  to  Miller's  result  but  somewhat
> smaller  because the experiment was performed closer
> to the ground.

LOOK at figure 12 of my paper. M&M's "signal" is not statistically significant, 
either. Again, these errorbars are an UNDERESTIMATE, as they include ONLY the 
portion due to the averaging; they are therefore unassailable.

Your last sentence is just factually wrong: much of Miller's data was taken IN 
THE BASEMENT at CWRU (but in a different basement than Michelson and Morley used 
30 years earlier). Later a special "interferometer house" was built with glass 
windows and the interferometer at ground level (in Cleveland). Later still he 
made the heroic trek to carry it up to a lab near the top of Mt. Wilson (which 
is probably what you are thinking of). Then he brought it back to CWRU and took 
still more data. The basement of the physics building at CWRU has special 
pillars for the interferometer -- they are isolated from the building and go 
down to bedrock. Miller was, of course, the chairman of the physics department 
when the building was built.


After writing the paper, I was of course aware that one of the major problems 
with Miller's technique was his "adjustments" to the interferometer to keep the 
central fringe visible [#]. Basically the drift was too large. When I was at 
CWRU (presenting a colloquium on this), Prof. Fickinger and I spent a few hours 
in the archives selecting data runs which had no adjustments. We had time to 
look at more than half of his >2,000 data sheets. That criteria of course 
preferentially selects runs with small drift. To no great surprise, most of 
these runs clearly had no "signal" at all. Many of them were simple progressions 
like
	+1 +1 +1 ... +2 +2 +2 ... +3 +3 +3 ... +4 +4 +4 ...
for all 20 turns. Many had a total drift less than one fringe, and all had 
drifts less than 3 fringes.

Miller never mentioned these runs with no signal (probably because they were 
only a few percent of his runs [@]). Nor do the people like you who so 
desperately want his "signal" to be real. But it isn't.


	[#] He would place a small weight on one arm to distort the
	instrument and move the central fringe toward the center of his
	field of view.

	[@] This is more a statement about the (lack of) stability of
	his instrument than anything else.


Tom Roberts


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#363971 — Re: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light)

FromAnton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com>
Date2015-09-13 15:39 +0300
SubjectRe: Dayton Miller's measurements (was: Re: A Particle Model of Light)
Message-ID<20150913153952.ed8ca2b103356f9cd2be61a1@gmail.com>
In reply to#363954
Thanks for reply, Tom.
I shall address your comments when time permists,
which is unlikely to happen before the next weekend.

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