Lunar Laser-Ranging Detection of Light-Speed Anisotropy

Surfer wrote:

On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:22:48 +1030, Surfer wrote:

This is a very interesting discovery.

Originally made he

Lunar Laser Ranging Test of the Invariance of c
Daniel Y. Gezari
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.3934

Abstract: The speed of laser light pulses launched from Earth and
returned by a retro-reflector on the Moon was calculated from
precision round-trip time-of-flight measurements and modeled
distances. The measured speed of light (c) in the moving observers
rest frame was found to exceed the canonical value c = 299,792,458 m/s
by 200+/-10 m/s, just the speed of the observatory along the
line-of-sight due to the rotation of the Earth during the
measurements.


Actually, after having a closer look at the paper I found this claim
is wrong. The calculations don't properly account for movement of
retro-reflector towards the observer in the rest frame of the
observer.
[snip]

Sagnac effect.

If you wish to ding relativity or quantum field theory, your
falsifying observation must be consistent with all prior validated
observations. This is not overmuch difficult. Physics always
discards structure in favor of symmetry. Look in the garbage can.

If the vacuum is demonstrably anisotropic, if the Equivalence
Principle can be empirically falsified at will, all bets are off.
Intensely opposite geometric parity atomic mass distributions are
single crystals in enantiomorphic space groups P3(1)21 versus P3(2)21
and P2(1) versus P3(2) - opposite shoes.

1) Do opposite shoes vacuum free fall identically? (quartz or
gamma-glycine)
2) Do opposite shoes have identical enthalpies of fusion to socks?
(benzil)
3) Do Meissner-levitated opposite shoes spontaneously spin in
opposite directions? (quartz)
4) Do molecular left-left, left-right, right-right paired
propellers on a rigid shaft show spin population divergence versus
time of day?

http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/twistene.png

Theory cannot transcend itself - certainly not perturbative
treatments. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has
data." Somebody should look.

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Uncle Al
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