DOCUMENT C.37
Recovered from LPDTR.
Dear Ermis,
I’m glad to hear of your progress with your experiments. I, unfortunately, have encountered something worrying that I’d like to share first with you so that you can tell me I’m crazy rather than all our colleagues having the privilege.
I was conducting some relatively routine experiments with a student - they were curious about calculating the speed of light in water using refraction - and was disgruntled that we repeatedly achieved the wrong result. The light appeared to be travelling much faster than it should be in the water! We checked our measurements as carefully as we could but our results were definitively just outside the margin of error.
I dismissed the error to my student, but I must confess in my own time I performed several other experiments to verify constants, and a few bore similarly erroneous results. I’ve attached all the details below.
As physicists, Ermis, is it not our job to notice coincidences and check if they have meaning? I’d be grateful if you could replicate my experiments and send me your results - I only hope I have gone mad and not the universe itself.
Yours,
Zakia