Re: Cahill's recent paper readdressing MMX et al

From: Thomas Wong (nonfunctional_email_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: 18 Jan 2005 01:08:13 -0800

Paul Stowe wrote:
>
> Can you show us anywhere in the literature (or statements by either
> Michelson or Morley) that says this explicitly? If not, you're
> simply projecting your 'beliefs' of ehat might have been...

To which of my statements do you object?

1) "Michelson and Morley understood what a true ether drift signal
would look like." True or False?

2) "[they] recognized the observed fluctuations as not having the
necessary characteristics." True or False?

3) "What you cite was their estimate of the largest signal that
could possibly be hiding under the observed noise." True or False?

4) "Had Michelson and Morley considered the observed fluctuations
as being possibly indicative of a true but unexpectedly small
signal, they would have stated as such." True or False?

5) "They did not." True or False?

> If M&M were looking for a clear signal of x, and didn't find x or
> anywhere near x it would seen logical to report this, and present
> the actual findings as negative FOR the expected x! But, at least
> they did present the data unlike many nowadays. Now in an age of
> scrounging for signals in a sea of noise as with COBE is seems
> pretty damned hypocritical to complain about this. There IS a
> clear and present pattern in Figure 4 that IS sinusoidal in nature.
>
> It seems that the only issue is what is the actual cyclic period.

The cyclical period is on the order of 144 degrees or so, which is
totally incompatible with any interpretation in terms of ether
drift.
 
Tom

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