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- From: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Subject: We are doing the Ying Experiment
- Message-ID: <920721124650.20206aab@FNALD.FNAL.GOV>
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: ames!FNALD.FNAL.GOV!DROEGE
- Organization: Sci.physics.fusion/Mail Gateway
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:55:36 GMT
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- We are doing the Ying Experiment. I have just read the letter I wrote and
- can say that. I also specified a six month time limit, but for the most
- part others have revealed a lot, and some have guessed a lot.
-
- We do not yet have the right stuff to do Ying, so we are doing pseudo Ying.
- We are also doing something that Ying has not yet done according to Jed
- Rothwell. We are alternating periods of "Ying On" with periods of "Ying
- Off".
-
- I estimate that the effect of our "Yind On" device is two or three orders
- of magnitude less than the specified "Ying On" device.
-
- So far, we have the initial "off" period, followed by an "on", "off", and
- an "on". The two "on" periods both accumulated more heat than the two
- "off" periods. Since god has a "Ying On" device that she turns on from
- time to time, it is not possible to have a true "off" period.
-
- If this keeps up for a few more periods, I propose to set up a "double blind"
- experiment. I will have one of you out there tell me when to be on and off.
- Then I will send data to a second who does not know the on - off sequence.
- A third can then look at the two sets of data and compare them. I should
- be able to find someone at Fermilab to come by every couple of days and
- seal the data disk and mail the full one.
-
- The present period is 24 hours. Not a high speed experiment, but it has
- always been my belief that a very sensitive low level experiment will be
- more convincing than one that blows the recreation room off my house.
-
- I nominate Jim Carr to start thinking about how to set up such an experiment.
-
- Tom Droege
-