Rotating optical cavity experiment testing Lorentz invariance at the 10^{-17} level · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1002.1284/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTRotating optical cavity experiment testing Lorentz invariance at the 10^{-17} level — mentioned by bigbillheckhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35708206urn:hackerpapers:mention:1002.1284:35708206Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:49:38 GMT<p>&gt; MM found a signal below the margin of error Wiki has their data: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d1/Michels... In Michelson&#x27;s own words (per wiki): &gt; The expected deviation of the interference fringes from the zero should have been 0.40 of a fringe – the maximum displacement was 0.02 and the average much less than 0.01 – and then not in the right place. The data doesn&#x27;t look anything like a signal, and wiki also says: &gt; Roberts (2006) has pointed out that the primitive data reduction techniques used by Miller and other early experimenters, including Michelson and Morley…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1002.1284/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.class-ph