Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-23 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 11/22/2011 07:28 PM, Javier Serrano wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Bob Campli...@rtty.us wrote: in the first paper, the distance uncertainty was given as 20cm Of which the survey likely contributed next to nothing and stuff like earth tides contributed the majority of the

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-22 Thread Jim Lux
On 11/21/11 9:05 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: You guys missed my point. I did not mean that survey and timing errors are so large What I meant was that even if you assume unreasonably large errors (like a surveyor being off by a full meter) you still don't get 60nS. If I were to bet money,

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Camp
On Nov 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Jim Lux wrote: On 11/21/11 5:15 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi You can have a surveyor come out and locate your gizmo to sub one inch accuracy for a lot less than a clock trip costs. A one meter ( or 3 ns) error would be pretty large these days. Both have been

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-22 Thread Javier Serrano
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: in the first paper, the distance uncertainty was given as 20cm Of which the survey likely contributed next to nothing and stuff like earth tides contributed the majority of the error …. See

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-22 Thread Bob Camp
Hi Earth tides and even more un-stoppable events like politics … Bob On Nov 22, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Javier Serrano wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Bob Camp li...@rtty.us wrote: in the first paper, the distance uncertainty was given as 20cm Of which the survey likely contributed

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-22 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 11/22/2011 03:17 PM, Bob Camp wrote: On Nov 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Jim Lux wrote: On 11/21/11 5:15 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi You can have a surveyor come out and locate your gizmo to sub one inch accuracy for a lot less than a clock trip costs. A one meter ( or 3 ns) error would be pretty

[time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Bill Hawkins
A good friend, who has written a lot of excellent real-time software, maintains that that it is impossible to find all of the systematic errors in something as complex as the GPS system. The error is small, 60 ns in 2.4 ms, about 3 E-5, for OPERA or 8 E-5 for MINOS. Has anyone measured the speed

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Brooke Clarke
Hi Bill: Are they using GPS directly, or to discipline a high quality oscillator, say a Cs? Since it's frequency is spot on then all the GPS is doing is setting the edge of the 1 PPS. The difference between the Cs 1 PPS and GPS 1 PPS can be measured over a day or more to see what it looks

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Bob Bownes
Keep in mind that a common view or LOS light method will have a problem with the variability of the medium density along the path being unknown. You could do it in a vacuum however. I come back to the base question of 'since the speed of light varies depending on the medium, does the speed of the

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
On 11/21/2011 08:57 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote: Hi Bill: Are they using GPS directly, or to discipline a high quality oscillator, say a Cs? Since it's frequency is spot on then all the GPS is doing is setting the edge of the 1 PPS. The difference between the Cs 1 PPS and GPS 1 PPS can be measured

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Hal Murray
Has anyone measured the speed of light with GPS clocks in the same way that neutrinos are measured - say between mountain tops? I'm pretty sure that won't work very well. The problem is that air isn't vacuum. The index of refraction changes slightly with temperature. The subtle changes in

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Alan Melia
velocity of light versus neutrinos Has anyone measured the speed of light with GPS clocks in the same way that neutrinos are measured - say between mountain tops? I'm pretty sure that won't work very well. The problem is that air isn't vacuum. The index of refraction changes slightly

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Chris Albertson
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Alan Melia alan.me...@btinternet.com wrote: You can't measure anything with out perturturbing it in some way, even slightlythen there is the Uncertainly Principle if they measure the speed how do they know where they were. OK, So assume an unlikely

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Bob Camp
Hi You can have a surveyor come out and locate your gizmo to sub one inch accuracy for a lot less than a clock trip costs. A one meter ( or 3 ns) error would be pretty large these days. Both have been demonstrated / proven so often that they aren't really open to challenge. The total error is

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Jim Lux
On 11/21/11 5:15 PM, Bob Camp wrote: Hi You can have a surveyor come out and locate your gizmo to sub one inch accuracy for a lot less than a clock trip costs. A one meter ( or 3 ns) error would be pretty large these days. Both have been demonstrated / proven so often that they aren't really

Re: [time-nuts] The GPS velocity of light versus neutrinos

2011-11-21 Thread Chris Albertson
You guys missed my point. I did not mean that survey and timing errors are so large What I meant was that even if you assume unreasonably large errors (like a surveyor being off by a full meter) you still don't get 60nS. If I were to bet money, still I'd bet on some experimental error. That