Dayton Miller's Data have no Real Signal

In the 1920's and 30's Dayton Miller made an enormous number of
measurements using several versions of his Michelson interferometer. In
1933 he published a review article, "The Ether-Drift Experiment and the
Determination of the Absolute Motion of the Earth" [1]. If valid, the
results of that paper would refute SR and GR. Since its publication, no
convincing refutation of that paper has been given, though Shankland et
al tried to do so [2]. Since then numerous people have proclaimed
Miller's data are correct, and have built castles in the air based on
that assumption.

This article explains why Miller, and modern advocates of his anomalous
result, are wrong: there is no real signal in his data at all; his data
and results are completely explained by a large systematic error that
masquerades as a "signal".

The full article is posted to the newsgroup sch.physics.relativity, and
all discussion will take place there.


Tom Roberts