RE: The universe appears "old", but it is still less than 10,000 years old
December 5, 2013 at 10:30 pm
(December 5, 2013 at 10:09 pm)Chuck Wrote: The problem of calibration is you assume none of the changes in condition between the calibration and the experiment matters to the applicability of the calibration results to the experiment. If this assumption is not challenged, then calibration is good. But if this assumption is challenged, then you measure the actual experiment, and can't rely on calibration.
The experiment is to test whether photon propogate isotropically. But signal traveling through the cable, whether it is an electrical signal, or a fiber optic signal, are still electromagnetic and relies on photons as its messenger particle. So if you are testing whether photon travel isotropically, to assume the calibration of the wire holds during the experiment is to assume the conclusion.
But then, if you measure the signal in the wires hundreds to thousands of times and get the same results, I think it is safe to say that the signal is going to be the same during the experiment. As a check, you run the experiment over and over again. But at some point you have to agree with Einstein that "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result". By the way, an electrical wire propagates electrons, not photons. Yeah, I know, it's a moot point, but still a point.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
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