On 04/19/2010 03:52 PM, Harry Veeder wrote: > In case anyone is interested, the guy with the vertical > interferometer has repeated his experiment with a more rigid > apparatus: > > http://worldnpa.ning.com/profiles/blogs/grusenick-repetition-of
Quote: > During a 180° rotation with the new Interferometer, I can see on average > 1.5 interference fringe shifts during the night and 2.0 during daytime. > With the older one, which you can see in the YouTube movie, there are > 11.0 shifts at night and 11.5 if the experiment is performed during daytime. So, paraphrasing and summarizing, he stiffened the apparatus substantially, and 90% of the observed fringe shift vanished. Obvious conclusion: The critics who said the "signal" observed with the first apparatus was really just "noise" due to flexing of the apparatus were clearly correct. It seems like a good guess that stiffening it still further would reduce the observed shift stiff further.
