| Einstein>revisited: |
| Take a train going down a valley and set up sensors in a circle. Each sensor station has two sensor sets, one to measure the speed of the light coming from headlight, the other to measure the speed of the train. |
| Every sensor station, except two show that the speed of light is a constant no matter how fast the train is going. |
| The sensor looking at the caboose, sees the speed of the train, but can't see the headlight. |
| The sensor looking directly at the train sees the train and headlight and measures the speed of both, except at time 0/0 when the train hits the sensor and destroys it, resulting in no measurement. |
| Change the train to a bike with a headlight...The same measurements are taken and no reading is found when looking at the caboose and at time 0/0, the bike hits the sensor and tips over... |
| Silly, maybe, but real measurements are real measurements and should not be discarded just because they don't fit the preconceived notions ( the Galileo "defense"). |
| The same analysis can be taken to modern scientific records. Everything is tweaked to fit standard curves, best straight lines or bell curves. |
| Computer recording systems may capture all of the raw data, but routinely discard discrepant data so that it all fits, before displaying it. |
| If you look at a set of raw data, before it is adjusted, you may find some data points that are completely out of line. These would typically be seen as spikes in the data. |