Talk:Problematic physics experiments
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I removed Hafele-Keating_experiment from the list; the supposedly "not disputed" criticisms come from (as far as I can tell) two authors, one of whose sole publication on the topic was in the non-peer-reviewed popular magazine "Wireless World", the other of whose two non-peer-reviewed articles were in an obscure engineering journal and the also non-peer-reviewed "Physics Essays"; moreover, neither of the authors appear to agree with the thrust of the deleted entry, i.e. that H-K got the right answer via invalid techniques; rather, both authors appear to think relativity is wrong altogether. In any case, neither of these articles have any mainstream citations whatsoever, but are mentioned only on "Einstein-Was-Wrong" web pages and such. (This is in contrast to Eddington's irregularities, which are very well-known in the mainstream literature.) If anyone can find mainstream sources (WP:RS) for the idea that "H-K got their stats wrong", please cite it. Bm gub 19:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Actually, Eddington's experiment probably shouldn't be here either. It is understandable that it is, as there is "mainstream literature" severely criticising Eddington's experiment, but in recent years the pendulum has swung again and there are views now that Eddington has not been given due credit. What seems to have happened is that several myths sprung up about the experiment, one of which was picked up by the John Waller book "Fabulous Science" in 2002. For a full account of the myths surrounding the Eddington experiment, see Daniel Kennefick, "Not Only Because of Theory: Dyson, Eddington and the Competing Myths of the 1919 Eclipse Expedition," Proceedings of the 7th Conference on the History of General Relativity, Tenerife, 2005 (this article mentions the Waller book) I'm currently writing a Wikipedia article on the experiment (it's in my userspace at the moment), so hopefully that will help clear up some of the confusion surrounding this. Carcharoth (talk) 22:32, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- Totally agree. I removed Eddington. ScienceApologist (talk) 13:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
