I think it is much more likely that the effect is seasonal (in the Northern Hemisphere, you see the galactic center during summer), than some indirect effect of secondary mesons from Sagittarius A*. Both the temperature and moisture tend to vary on a seasonal basis.
Marshall On Nov 14, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > Based on what I've seen in terms of daily / weekly / monthly correlation in > data - a yearly correlation would not surprise me at all. Coming up with a > test environment that's immune to external influence is not at all easy. The > NIST guys worry quite a bit about stuff that's sitting in caves. Periodicity > in data is very common. Digging down and finding the reason for that > periodicity - not so common. > > Bob > > > On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Magnus Danielson wrote: > >> On 11/14/2010 04:05 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> thanks for your comments. >>> >>> I take from them that the "galactic" jitter in an oscillator >>> can't be seen unless one has a long time series (such as I did >>> with temperature). Too many other causes would mask it, as >>> some of you have evidenced. Nevertheless it exists, but has >>> no practical implications in the current practice at our labs. >>> >>> Should anybody have an interest in my curve (maybe using it as >>> a reference....), it is at >>> >>> http://xoomer.virgilio.it/iovane/trimestri1.xls >>> >>> Please look mainly at the curve labeled "ALL (A to H)", which >>> summarizes two years of data (6+ million data points). Notice >>> the valley when I'm opposite to the center of the galaxy. >> >> What are the scales? >> What are the time-reference? >> >> If you have shown that the feature has a 86164 second period rather than >> 86400 s period a good exercise would be to show that it has a high >> correlation to the integral of the half-hemisphere gamma rays (as show in >> the graphs) the experiment is facing. Some deviation may naturally be >> expected, as the experiment may not have the same sensitivity in all >> directions to gamma rays, but the basic correlation should be there. >> This correlation could be made into a stronger proof if done over the year, >> as the hemisphere shifts over the sky over the years due to the angle of the >> earth. >> >> Anyway, I think we are going into off-topicness here. >> >> Cheers, >> Magnus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
