tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post8374163594117977913..comments2024-03-27T22:28:06.861-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: Muonic Proton Radius Discrepancy Problem ResolvedAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-84008809693648084282019-09-08T09:11:37.328-06:002019-09-08T09:11:37.328-06:00Social aspects such as consensus pervade even '...Social aspects such as consensus pervade even 'hard science' measurements. <br /><br />The value of Planck's constant was revised upwards - no one wanted to break the consensus. <br /><br />https://cdn.iopscience.com/images/0026-1394/55/1/29/Full/metaa966cf01_online.jpg<br />https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0263224118309084-gr1.jpg<br /><br />The idea that this phenomenon no longer exists, as it is fixed by 'blind' analysis of the data for the proton radius is hard to believe. <br /><br />The muon results may be correct, but one measurement, nor it seems multiple measurements will settle it, social bias is just too strong. <br /><br />Caption for figure:<br />" Evolution over time of the recommended values of the Planck constant h, along with their (1r) uncertainties. It is instructive to zoom in on the later years of the graph – where measurement uncertainty is negligible compared to what it was in the middle of the century. Such zooms are indicated by the rectangles on the graphs (a) and (b), and end up in graphs (b) and (c) respectively. For practical reasons, two previous values, published by Raymond Birge in 1929 and 1932, were ignored in this graph because their plotting requires a change in scale that would obscure the rest of the observations. Both these values differ significantly from the 1941 value, despite a much larger uncertainty. This is a figure constructed with data collected from the literature, reproduced with permission from [21]."<br /><br />https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/aa966c<br />https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263224118309084Thomas Andersenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08725867896092634795noreply@blogger.com