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From: hertz778@gmail.com (rhertz)
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Subject: Re: I asked ChatGPT to prove that the 1965 muon decay experiment WAS A
 HOAX.
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 03:24:56 +0000
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 2:05:39 +0000, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog wrote:

> On Fri, 2 May 2025 1:06:13 +0000, rhertz wrote:
>
>> But dig into the technical reality, and a very different picture
>> emerges. The “signal” they claimed to extract was orders of magnitude
>> smaller than the spectral noise of the gamma ray source—and not encoded
>> in any way that could be isolated.
>> Let’s examine why this experiment, widely celebrated in textbooks, may
>> be better described as a statistical illusion cloaked in prestige.
>
> When I was an undergraduate, I worked for a summer in a Mössbauer
> spectroscopy laboratory where we *routinely* measured chemical shifts
> on the order of 5% of the natural linewidth. Personally, I find it no
> stretch at all of the imagination to consider measurement precisions
> an order of magnitude or so better than what we routinely achieved.
>
> I bounced around a bit in the labs that I worked in. The following
> summer, I worked in a lab doing split brain research, and the summer
> after that, in a lab studying the effects of GABA on crayfish neuron
> signal transmission.


Quite a difference between 5% shift in natural bandwidth (you) and A
NOISY 0.1% shift (Pound allegation, 1959-1960). I think that ChatGPT
explained this disgraceful event with astonishing clarity:


"this experiment, widely celebrated in textbooks, may be better
described as a statistical illusion cloaked in prestige".

I always called it a farce, an HOAX. And that's what it was, is and will
be.