Agreed. Has anyone done the crucial experiment? establish stats, rotate assembly, establish stats, etc? Should be able to measure at least if there is an effect, and also if it is present, an approximate magnitude... Don
Hi Don, There are two rather different topics here. One is do crystal oscillators change frequency when they are turned. The answer to that is yes. This gravitational acceleration effect is rather huge, parts in ten to the 9th or so, and anyone can see this. This is why you never touch, bump, or move, or rotate a laboratory frequency standard (this includes GPSDO and cesium standards). The other question is what happens to quartz crystals or pendulum clocks or werewolves during a solar eclipse. This is the possible pseudo-science topic, although I do applaud anyone who carefully looks into it. A recent and good example of such an experiment is described here: "Effect of the 1999 Solar Eclipse on Atomic Clocks" <http://www.mpq.mpg.de/~haensch/comb/people/thomas/Nature99.pdf> "On the Behaviour of Atomic Clocks during the 1999 Solar Eclipse over Central Europe" <http://www.mpq.mpg.de/~haensch/eclipse/full.html> /tvb _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
