Re: An Explanation of Dayton Miller's Anomalous "Ether Drift" Result


Tom Roberts wrote:
Harry wrote:
According to Munera in a later, refined publication, the signal can even
change considerably in the time of making one turn.

Reference, please. I see no such preprint on arXiv.org.

Are you are thinking of this:
H.Munera, "Michelson-Morley Experiments Revisited: Systematic
Errors,
Consistency Among Different Experiments, and Compatibility with
Absolute Space", APEIRON Vol. 5 Nr. 1-2, January-April 1998 Page 37.

If so, he completely ignores the enormous systematic drift, and makes
several incorrect statements about variation over time of the signal
(including the claim it varies during a single turn).

As I point out in footnote 7 on page 6, the rotation of the earth
introduces a negligible variation in the orientation of the apparatus
during a run.

Munera is wrong. Munera claimed to consider "systematic errors" but
ignored the systematic drift, which generates errorbars vastly larger
than the tiny effects he considered. And he did not understand the flaws
in Miller's analysis algorithm.

I tried to send H. Munera an email pointing out my paper, with the hope
he would look at it and comment, but all attempts bounced.


Tom Roberts

Here is a later Munera "masterpiece"

http://www.ensmp.fr/aflb/AFLB-272/aflb272p463.pdf

....a regurgitation of the earlier Apeiron publication. BTW, Apeiron is
another one of the fringe journals, with a clear antirelativistic
twist. It publishes mostly garbage rejected elsewhere.

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