Re: Cahill on the speed of light (& Einstein)


"Eric Gisse" <jowr.pi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tom Roberts wrote:
Dead Paul wrote:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0501051

Dead wrong. In particular, he does not understand error analysis, and
thinks that Michelson and Morley, and Miller, both "detected absolute
motion". In fact, they did not, and their measurements are fully
consistent with SR. But one must do an error analysis to fully
understand this, and Cahill did not do one.

Do you know why Cahill thought it was best to use the data from a
century old experiment rather than more recent incarnations of the same
experiment which have tighter error bars?

I have always thought it was odd that he did that.

Which ones? I only know one recent M-M experiment with gas (not yet
published) and it has similar results as Miller. I'm now discussing with the
experimenter.

Harald


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