On 08/27/2013 07:39 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > Hi Steven, > > You can contact me off-line about this if you want more information. > > Being someone with plenty of cesium clocks I looked into his claims in the > late 90's. His cables and electronics were not at all temperature > compensated. It's a simple mistake we all make at one point or another in our > time-nuts career. > > Once you deal with tempco correctly no one has problems like he saw, whether > your clocks are as old as the one he used in 1991 or modern ones that are ten > to a thousand times more accurate. > > Note he ran his experiment for 178 days. If you run a ground temperature > experiment for a full year (or years) you get complete temperature cycles; if > you happen to pick only half a year, starting early summer as he did, you get > a slow ramp. > > When you combine diurnal changes (which he saw) with half-year ramps (which > he mis-interpreted) you get a solar-sidereal effect that looks > extra-terrestrial. Roland was a little too eager to prove aether exists and > textbooks were wrong. Unfortunately he died shortly before I could email him > about his methods and raw data. That was, what, 15 years ago.
Besides damping variations by digging the cables deeper, you can run two-way time-transfer and that way both monitor and cancel the temperature effect. 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.
