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Largest relativistic signal to noise ratio?

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by: patdolan - Sat, 13 Jan 2024 20:14 UTC

The relativist professor intones to his class "No other theory has been confirmed to as many decimal places as the theory of relativity." But this is because the data that is said to confirm relativity usually occurs at, or beyond the 6th decimal place due to the non-relativistic velocities, distances or masses involved in such experiments. Pound-Rebka is a good example. The confirmatory signals are so ridiculously small when compared to the noise threshold of the instrumentation that Pound withdrew the experimental results, as I recall. Eddington's controversial razor thin results were tainted with confirmation bias and withdrawn posthumously by the physics community. Then there is that class of experiments which are simply tax payer funded frauds--such as LIGO.

I now put a question to this forum: which confirmatory result has the highest signal to noise ratio? My guess is that the muons of Mt. Washington do, because of the binary nature of that data.

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