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AUTHOR'S ANSWER TO THE REFEREES COMMENTS (FIRST AND SECOND REFEREES)
ON THE PAPER "NEW MEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH'S ABSOLUTE VELOCITY WITH
THE HELP OF THE 'COUPLED SHUTTERS' EXPERIMENT"
by
STEFAN MAR I NOV
I give my answer to both referees together because this will spare me time.
The FIRST REFEREE writes:
Firstly, the suggestions that the experiment lay beyond the expertise of JILA
in the University of Colorado are I believe a strong overstatement of some
comments by one of the research workers of that laboratory. I have spoken
with him about this, and we both feel that if the paper were to be published
such statements must be removed or corrected.
The SECOND REFEREE writes:
The author has an idea for an experiment which could have dramatic results.
What is necessary, beyond this, is a practical realisation of an apparatus
that can do the experiment and which is also able to answer all critics with
demonstrations that the obvious problems - bearing precision, vibration,
non-uniform illumination, temperature drift, etc, are not larger than the effect
sought. Until this is achieved the existing scientific "orthodoxy" concerning
the velocity of light will conmand much greater credibility than the
measurement reported here. It is my considered opinion that, very sadly, the
JILA team are right and the experiment is, at present, beyond the reach of
the best of modern experimental techniqueT
The statement of the first referee is exactly opposite to the statement (underlined
by me) of the second referee. The Editorial Board cannot reject a paper on the basis
of two diametrically opposite criticisms. Thus the paper must be printed. But I shall
not follow the suggestion of the first referee to delete the opinion which the scientific
co-workers of JILA seminate in the WORLD with the aim of blocking the appearance
of my papers in the press. This correction can be done ONLY BY THE CO-WORKERS OF JILA
in the PRESS.
The first referee writes: "I find the overall tone of the paper annoying." My book
VADE RETRO, SATANAS! (in Bulgarian and Russian) is considered as the best satyrical
book ever published in Bulgaria. I write poetries on six languages (see my collection
JllCr OTBPyJIEH, Heter-Peter Editors, Washington, 1978). I beg the referee to let to me
to know what is annoying tone and what is not. The reference in NATURE can be found
on the cited locus. Am I guilty when the referee cannot find a publication in NATURE
At any rate to spare his time, I send him a reprint of that publication, for which I
paid to Dr. Maddox % 1,500 .
The first referee writes:
He certainly finds a 24 periodicity in the differential velocity signal but
one has to be extremely careful about such an effect. For example I believe
it could perhaps arise from a diurnal variation in the power or the pointing
direction of the beam from the argon laser used. Such laser fluctuations can
result from a) cyclic fluctuations in the temperature and pressure of the cooling
water and b) power line voltage fluctuations.
This is a typical example of annoying irrelevant rumanation of a man who has not
grasped the essence of the experiment. Dear referee, the source for both light beams
is the same. The fluctuations of its intensity lead to synchronous and equal fluctuations
in both beams. The effect comes from the difference of both illuminations. In
the mathematics there is a rule: if one adds the same number to two numbers, the difference
of those two numbers remains the same.
The first referee writes:
I should be much more convinced if Marinov has searched for and failed to find
a 24 hour periodicity with rotating shutters held at rest.
This suggestion is good. But who will clean my horses when I shall search for the
lack of diurnal periodicity But even at the availability of such a diurnal fluctua-