You are not the right one to talk about reality.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1102/1102.0212v3.pdf
This anomaly was the easiest one to discover, based on analysing allready done..
You have no idea. Do you know how to analyze statistical data?
.... I thought not.
The perigee / apogee anomaly (I am talking about) is also easy to discover,
It is not only easy to discover, it is
impossible to overlook. An annual 900mm fluctuation would show up as noise in the data set, and it would be absolutely impossible to discern the millimeter variances we have found until the pattern of this fluctuation was figured out.
*)
but first when we pay attention to the possibility that RR could be true, and hence also the consequences.
Not before...
Bjarne, we have
worked with stuff at relativistic speeds for a long time now. If there was RR, we would have known.
.......
*)I expect this is hopeless, but I'll try:
Bjarne, imagine you wanted to measure the wear on the front wheel tire on your Puch Maxi moped. Unfortunately, you can only measure the diameter of the whole wheel, but if you measure that exactly enough, you will find the wear of the tire.
There is a small problem, though: Who ever tightened the spokes didn't make the wheel perfectly round; it is a little oval. Just a few mm, but enough to hide the change in diameter due to tire wear. Whenever you measure the diameter, you get a different result.
So what do you do? - You take a lot of measurements, and map the exact shape of the wheel. Now you can deduct these differences from your measurements, and get the much smaller differences that are due to the tire being worn.
Back to the moon: Over the last 30 years, several research centers have been making tens of thousands of soundings of the distance to the moon. Each sounding gives a very precise reading of the time between sending and receiving the signal, down to a picosecond or so,
in the moment of measuring.
However, when you look at the data set over several measurements, you will find that those values vary over quite a range, so to get the precise distance, with millimeter precision, you need to
identify and filter out noise sources.
There are many such noise sources:
- Thermal disturbances in the atmosphere; very short term.
- Tidal variations in Earth's crust; day length.
- Orbital perturbations from Earth's orbit; annual length.
- Orbital perturbations from the Earth-Moon system; month length.
- Etc., etc., etc. .......
Some of these are known, others are the ones we want to discover, but only by accumulating thousands of measure points (actually, they even collect them in clusters, to filter out short-term noise) and weeding through them statistically can you discern all the different contributions.
You have to do this layer by layer: First you find the shortest term, and largest variations, and when you have discovered the pattern in those, you can filter them out and look for ever smaller, ever more long-term patterns.
It doesn't matter at all what you expect to find or are looking for. This is simply the only way to get through this kind of data: You have to find what there IS, not what you expect or want to see.
Therefore, I can tell you with absolute certainty that since they have come down to variations that happen over centuries, in the millimeter range, they
would have discovered an annual variation in the meter range, long ago.
Hans