rounder... don't you understand that I ALWAYS do my homework?
The paper you just quoted is old news.
THE AUTHORS OF THE PAPER COMMITTED A CRUCIAL, GRIEVIOUS ERROR: THEY FAILED TO READ THE ORIGINAL PAPER WRITTEN IN FRENCH, BY DR. MAURICE ALLAIS, WHICH DETAILS THE VERY CALCULATIONS THEY WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT.
They only read the short version, the English language report, and based their catastrophic errors on that.
BUT ALLAIS DID DEFINE THE K PARAMETER VERY PROPERLY HERE:
http://ether-wind.narod.ru/Allais_1997/Allais_1997_1.pdfTo explain the REVERSAL OF THE MOTION OF A PENDULUM using building vibrations is ludicrous.
The authors of the German paper are showing their utter ignorance of the facts by having failed to read the original work in French which does include the very description of the k paramater they complain about.
Dr. Maurice Allais is a Nobel prize winner, he carefully took everything into consideration.
In order to arrive at an explanation, M. Allais considered a wide range
of known periodic phenomena, including the terrestrial tides, variations in
the intensity of gravity, thermal or barometric effects, magnetic variations,
microseismic effects, cosmic rays, and the periodic character of human
activity. Yet, on close examination, the very peculiar nature of the
periodicity shown by the change in azimuth of the pendulum forced the
elimination of all of these as cause.
Dr. Maurice Allais:
With regard to the validity of my experiments, it seems
best to reproduce here the testimony of General Paul Bergeron,
ex-president of the Committee for Scientific Activities for
National Defense, in his letter of May 1959 to Werner von
Braun:
"Before writing to you, I considered it necessary to
visit the two laboratories of Professor Allais (one 60
meters underground), in the company of eminent
specialists – including two professors at the Ecole
Polytechnique. During several hours of discussion, we
could find no source of significant error, nor did any
attempt at explanation survive analysis.
"I should also tell you that during the last two years,
more than ten members of the Academy of Sciences and
more than thirty eminent personalities, specialists in
various aspects of gravitation, have visited both his
laboratory at Saint-Germain, and his underground
laboratory at Bougival.
"Deep discussions took place, not only on these
occasions, but many times in various scientific contexts,
notably at the Academy of Sciences and the National
Center for Scientific Research. None of these discussions
could evolve any explanation within the framework of
currently accepted theories."
This letter confirms clearly the fact that was finally
admitted at the time - the total impossibility of explaining the
perceived anomalies within the framework of currently
accepted theory.
The authors of the German paper are ignorant even of these basic facts.
And we have the other carefully performed experiments which did confirm the Allais effect, from 1999 to 2011.
In fact, the results of the experiments of July 1958 confirmed in an electrifying manner my previous reasoning, leading to the conclusion that, in the movement of the paraconical pendulum with anisotropic support, there are anomalies of a periodic character which are totally inexplicable in the framework of currently accepted theories.
The two crucial experiments of June-July 1958 at SaintGermain
and at Bougival (6.5 km away, in an underground
gallery 57 meters deep) (pp. 142-161) gave identical results, in
amplitude and in phase, for the luni-solar periodic component
of 24h 50m (p. 146).
http://www.allais.info/alltrans/nasareport.pdf (pages 28R)
Page 44R carefully describes the 1958 experiments.
In fact, the results of the experiments of July 1958
confirmed in an electrifying manner my previous reasoning,
leading to the conclusion that, in the movement of the
paraconical pendulum with anisotropic support, there are
anomalies of a periodic character which are totally
inexplicable in the framework of currently accepted theories.