Re: OWLS Anisotropy Update (2)

From: Max Keon (mkeon_at_ozemail.com.au)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:35:48 +1000

sal wrote:
>
>On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:37:29 +1000, Max Keon wrote:
>>
>> Myxococcus xanthus wrote:
>>>
>>> Again, please explain the EXTREME DISCREPANCY between between your
>>> observed and predicted fringe shifts.
>>
>> Well, to tell you the truth, that extreme discrepancy is the reason I sent
>> the original post, along with the linked photograph. I couldn't explain it
>> by talking to myself. I needed some feedback.
>>
>> Since that posting, using exactly the same turntable and base, by
>> rearranging the prism and mirrors so that the beam was no longer split by
>> the prism, I proved my original theory wrong. Reflecting the beam entirely
>> within the prism caused no fringe shift whatever that could be linked to
>> direction.
>>
>> That result forced me to delve further into the mystery of the apparent
>> anisotropy caused by splitting the beam with the prism edge, and it
>> continues to haunt me.
>>
>> Should I go and watch TV instead?

> NO!! Don't do that!
>
> Fiddling with optics, building your own apparatus, attempting to
> understand the results, trying to formulate a theory you're content with
> in order to explain what you see, is far, far better for your brain than
> watching TV!

>> What would you do?

> I'd go read a book, but I'm not nearly as ambitious about testing things
> for myself as you seem to be.
>
> I like the front page on your website, by the way. I've seen slicker
> presentations of the same ideas, but few that are as strongly and
> compellingly stated. You didn't mention it, but I will:
>
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mkeon/
>
> --
> I can be contacted through http://www.physicsinsights.org

Such words of encouragement are seldom found around here.
I will treasure them forever. 

-- 
Max Keon
(my mailbox no longer works)

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