hopefulpessimist

I would like to recommend a laser experiment that reduces error and will hopefully eliminate tricks. Recreate the Alfred Russell Wallace/John Hampden Bedford level experiment of 1870, with a laser instead. Simply place the laser (purple preferably) with its culminator, where Wallace placed his telescope, at Welney bridge, with beam exactly centered 13 ft off the water, at Welney bridge. Aim the laser down the canal to strike the Old Bedford bridge 6 mi away, centered exactly 13 ft off the water, with a fluorescent yellow disc approximately the size of a softball. this will eliminate (quite handily) any atmospheric apparitions that might present themselves like inversions or refractions due to the height of the beam above the water. At a distance of three miles away, at a railroad bridge location, post two targets... One at 13 ft off the water, a small circle roughly the size of a baseball, bright fluorescent GREEN. Lower on this same arrangement have a rectangular Target where the top will be 9 ft off the water and the bottom will be 5 ft off the water, and this target will be fluorescent RED. Have this target be folded, so that when first deployed it will bend over to 90° angle to be in part, parallel with the water, having a hinge (maybe at the 4 foot location, 4 ft off the water... So that while aiming the laser, the center targets (at 3 miles) are out of the way, and not obscuring the laser aiming process. Then in a live (untested) facebook/youtube event... Release the center targets to stand upright and block the laser beam. And simply observe which color lights up the brightest. There will be beam divergence of course but hopefully that can be reduced to a minimum. I'm sure FECORE would love to try this with no tricks? There is another location they could do this as well, however, the Bedford level location is quite historic, being done at the original Bedford level experiment place in England. The original Bedford level experiment (executed by Rowbotham) was improper because it allowed atmospheric refraction to discredit the results. So? How about it? @Dr. Zack main-qimg-8d50fd11f11374f3e444eba9569bde00