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<DIV>Dear Randy,</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you for your answer confirming 1.27 cm diameter. </DIV>
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<DIV>The consequence, as you say, is to change the Reynold number. The flow is
still turbulent, you are right, but a little less turbulent. </DIV>
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<DIV>You chose for the ratio Umax./Uav. to take the value of 1.16. It is the
value taken by Fizeau. But Fizeau took a 2.8 cm diameter (maybe is it the origin
of the confusion of diameter in your paper ?). The fact is that with a little
less turbulent flow, the Umax will be a little different, a little higher.
And if we take again your Fig. 10 (of <A
href="http://labs.plantbio.cornell.edu/wayne/pdfs/errata.pdf)">http://labs.plantbio.cornell.edu/wayne/pdfs/errata.pdf)</A>,
the Special Relativity slope will be a little higher, apparently closer to your
experimental data ... </DIV>
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<DIV>In my opinion, the trouble with this Fizeau's experiment is the uncertainty
of the measure, in particular of the effective water velocity which is not
measured but calculated or even estimated. Another Fizeau's experiment done in
Toulouse, France, had to correct of 9% the slope to match the data ! Wich such
an uncertainty on water velocity, we can conclude only that Newton theory does
not work with light ; but it is difficult to clearly conclude than Relativity
works or not, or Doppler theory, or Neo-Newtonian theory based on a Variable
Inertial Mass (if you are interested, you can check paragraph 4.3 about Fizeau
Experimental Results on <A
href="http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=56126&#abstract)">http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=56126&#abstract)</A>
or any other theory close to this experimental data. It would be necessary to
take another media than water to get more acurate results in order to
discriminate these theories ...</DIV>
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<DIV>With my best regards</DIV>
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