The effect you're looking for depends on a comparison of two different kinds of atomic clocks eg Cs vs H-maser so the maser comparison presumably will be a null measurement.
But I see the path of totality passes a bit north of NIST Boulder and I'm pretty sure they will notice if there is an effect ! ( I'm highly sceptical there is one. Searches for exotic physics over the last three decades have consistently turned up nothing. I did it myself at the beginning of my career with the "fifth force", a composition-dependent, short range gravity-like force. The positive results all turned out to have very subtle classical physics explanations) Cheers Michael On Mon, 29 May 2017 at 9:35 am, Jim Palfreyman <jim77...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally I go with the Nature article. The other papers look like they > are anomaly hunting because they have a known event. > > Having said that, we have two H masers at our observatory in Hobart and we > have a system set up to measure their phase difference down to about 0.03 > ns. I will report back any anomaly. > > Did We, of course, are not in the path of the eclipse, however > gravitationally > there is still an alignment. Just through the Earth. > > > Jim Palfreyman > > > On 29 May 2017 at 08:17, iovane--- via time-nuts <time-nuts@febo.com> > wrote: > > > On august 21 2017 a solar eclipse will sweep USA from coast to coast. A > > lifetime opportunity to do coordinated experiments to check this or that. > > One of the questions that doesn't have a final answer yet is whether or > not > > solar eclipses could affect the flow of time. They exist conflicting > > reports: Negative: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v402/n6763/full/ > > 402749a0.html Positive: http://home.t01.itscom.net/ > > allais/blackprior/zhou/zhou-1.pdf http://home.t01.itscom.net/ > > allais/blackprior/zhou/zhou-2.pdfPersonally I believe that the positive > > results were due to spurious responses of the atomic clocks to something > > else than gravity, or the clocks failed for some reason (e.g. jumping > > crystals then steered), or lower quality clocks had been sold to China. > > Anyway the recorded data do show an anomaly.As far as I know, no atomic > > clock tests are planned anywhere for that circumstance, but sincerely I > > don't believe this is the truth.Maybe the US time-nuts community, using > its > > plenty > > of atomic clocks, could give the final answer doing tests during the > > above mentioned eclipse.US time-nuts, what about the idea of doing > > yourselves a large scale coordinated test? Or do you actually believe > that > > this question is already definitively closed?(Even discovering that > atomic > > clocks might respond to someting else than gravity would be of great > > interest).Antonio I8IOV > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/ > > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.