FECORE - Failed to provide evidence that the Earth is flat, at Lake Balaton (Hungary) Jan - Feb 2018
Dear Readers,
Update: August 2019:
The truth finally comes out of Mike Cavanaugh validating all we have said in this and our other articles on the FECORE laser test.
As Mike Cavanaugh finally explains in this August 2019 interview with Sly Sparkane, the goal of the laser test was to hit the distance target. Nothing else.
Our note: That does not prove the earth is flat. The laser can be aimed up/down and left/right. Point it above the horizon line any way you want just to get the laser light seen at the target location.
Aimed and traveling over the horizon the laser beam is refracted by the atmosphere and subject to other thermal distortions, before its ever widening beam (laser beam divergence) makes it to the distant target.
This only proved that the laser was bright enough to be seen from those distances. Nothing else.
Sly Sparkane says,
“What was the ultimate goal of the test? Was it to see the laser at the other end or was it to hit a target?”
Mike Cavanaugh says,
"to hit a target..."
Sly Sparkane says,
“and did you hit a target…”
Mike Cavanaugh says
“yes…”
Sly Sparkane says
“at 22 kilometers?”
Mike Cavanaugh says,
“at 20 and 26 or 27 or 29 now…”
This is FECore (MIRRORED), by Flat Earth Reset 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67XR5Xkhd8
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* Supplemental reading after this article
* FECORE 2018 - Lake Balaton and Lake Ijssel laser test - PEER REVIEW
* https://flatearthlunacy.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/932-fecore-2018-lake-balaton-and-lake-ijssel-laser-test-peer-review
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FECORE - Failed to provide evidence that the Earth is flat, at Lake Balaton (Hungary) Jan - Feb 2018
(or how to disguise failure as success)
Abstract:
The FECORE team did not attempt to prove that the Earth is flat at Lake Balaton.
During the entire course of the experiment they did not use any of the standard Geodetic survey tools; such as an internationally approved Theodolite/Auto level, GPS tracker, level staff, ranging rod, retro-reflector and surveyor’s tripod.
They did not place level staffs or sighting targets at various marker points along the Lake Balaton shoreline, to demonstration progressive tracking of Earth flatness over length.
They did not stake laser reflectors at various locations along the shoreline, and target them with a laser beam to demonstrate that the beam is truly pointed parallel to the water's surface over distance. That is a primary requirement to corroborate flatness.
The FECORE team did however, attempt thru a single measurement, to imply "proof by contradiction."
Proof by contradiction is a form of indirect proof, that establishes the truth or validity of a proposition. It starts by assuming that the opposite proposition is true, and then shows that such an assumption leads to a contradiction.
The error in this type of approach is the "assumption" that the Earth can only have two possible valid shapes - either flat or spherical. Attempting to prove that the Earth is not spherical, does not authenticate that the Earth is flat. And other flat Earth supporters willingly testify that the Earth is concave, convex, or undoubtedly a flat plane with as yet unmeasured total dimensions.
The shore-to-shore laser test should not have been wrapped up at the 12-km distance mark. Data at 12-km is not conclusive. That is around the FUZZY distance where, a) optical refraction, b) no precise measurements of source and target height above the water line, and c) no exact distance between source and target established - create a situation where a few meters can be argued about back and forth.
This is what they delivered, and why their claim will forever be in dispute.
To definitively prove flatness shore-to-shore measurements at 20-km, 30-km, 40-km, 50-km, 60-km and further are required. But FECORE did not render that.
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What did FECORE advertise and promise to deliver in the months leading up to their experiment?
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Result:
Not one of the above promises were kept!
Lake Balaton did not freeze over like they had hoped (since that happens only once in 10-years), but their alternate shore-to-shore plan b and c also did not produce those deliverables.
Even with an unfrozen lake, the FECORE team could have conducted shore-to-shore laser ranging all the way to 77-km. And the 197-km shoreline offers ample opportunity.
Please ask them why they limited their test to only 12-km? Their blue laser was bright enough to seen from several more kilometers distance.
Did they realize that 12-km was the farthest they could go, without losing sight of the laser due to Earth curvature, so they had to stop there?
They define success as "seeing the source of the light from the other side means everything to us," as stated by Dr. Zack.
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Experimental inconsistencies:
Slide 12 says 12-km, with no map location or GPS coordinates listed for reference. No third party independent observer to validate locations. No slide shows the actual laser on a tripod standing at the water's edge. No slide shows the camera mount at the water's edge.
So you must either take their word for it, or not.
This is not how science is done, and no scientific organization would accept their slides as evidence. Science also requires that at minimum, another independent team (now associated with FECORE) conduct the same experiment and get the same results, before any validity is given to their Lake Balaton laser experiment.
An actual distance of 11-km matches up better to their observations.
Earth curvature calculation:
Distance in km = 10.5
Viewer height in meters = 2.2
Refraction hidden amount = 1.54 meters
And then add in the physical reality that blue light (their laser) refracts (bends) more that red or green light, and you now have a situation where their observations at 11-km readily confirms correct Earth curvature.
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The 11-degree temperature differential between the water and layer of atmosphere directly above it, gives rise to significant optical refraction.
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The FECORE claim that the Earth has ZERO curvature.
Assuming that all their claims about location the laser and camera are correct (something that a scientist would never due), the fact that they did see the beam at 1.5-meters (but not below that) indicates that some curvature is present.
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Experimental inconsistencies:
Here (slide 17) is the only evidence presented that testifies to the height of the blue hand held laser above the lake's water line.
There is no picture or description of the laser itself on a tripod, or where it actually stands.
So they carried tables down to the waters edge?
Why no picture of the bottom of the tape measure in the water?
What is a SALAD aiming device?
Note: The SALAD device did not have GPS aiming enhancement at this time.
& FECore (Take II) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dQjB1VQUG4
A laser aiming device (LAD) allows you to position the light beam during daylight or high ambient light conditions. With this additional flexibility, you can set up or verify the fixture’s pan/tilt positions in conditions that would otherwise make beam positioning difficult or impossible.
This device HAS NO AUTO-LEVEL or way to determine if the laser beam is parallel to the ground. It is used to determine where the center of the laser beam is.
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Experimental inconsistencies:
Why was their advertised step-motor-mounted green laser not used in this experiment? Actually it was, but it failed to produce any worthwhile results so they kept quiet about it.
Slide 2 here is their green laser. But after closer evaluation this laser (and supplemental electronic computer equipment shown) was really designed for doing public laser light shows. FECORE got their green laser from Goldlaser.hu. That company specializes in selling laser show equipment.
The colored tape (green-blue-red-white, and red) on the handles indicate which laser that device controls.
Based on the Hungarian document listed below:
Failure 1 - after heating the device the crystal cracked and therefore this laser was not used
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Experimental inconsistencies:
This is an award from the country of Hungary for their 7.56 km laser shot across the lake, not from Guiness World Records as FECORE claimed.
Record for "hand held laser distance targeting" in Hungary.
https://mindmeghalunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jkv_lezer.pdf
Hungarian to English document translation...
I, the undersigned István Sebestyén Registrar, on preliminary request at 22 February 2018 at 17h15 the following on the ground floor of the Waberer's Club Hotel, owned by Waberes's group of companies (8171 Balatonvilágos, Zrínyi road 135.) in front of the reception area, FECORE Inc. (101 South Maple Street, North Liberty, IN 46554, USA, chair: Mike Cavanaugh), a large-scale laser optical measuring facility supported by an independent civil society organization.
They are here:
Székely Sándor, a FECORE vezetőségi tagja és a kísérlet fő szervezője
Mike Cavanaugh, a kísérlet vezetője, a FECORE elnöke
Steve Torrence, a FECORE tagja
Karen B. Endecott, a FECORE tagja
Holovitz Edgár, a FECORE tagja
Robert Scott, a FECORE tagja
William Genske, a FECORE tagja
Susanne Pietz, a FECORE tagja
Patrick Admiral, a FECORE tagja
Didi Van Havermaet, a FECORE tagja
Jeroen Jongajans, a FECORE tagja
Bocsor Sándor, a Waberer’s Club Hotel műszaki munkatársa
and as a witness: Hermina Csömör, Gold Laser EV. owner, laser expert
who have been informed that the team intends to implement the laser-refractive experiment from the largest distances optical measurement in Hungary. According to their knowledge, in the Earth's atmosphere laser measurements were made at the largest distance in the 1970's years in America around 90 km, but in Hungary they want to set up their the greatest measure of optical measurement. Several types of power and wavelength laser are used for measurement, a To capture a far-reaching light beam, a ca. They are designed with a 3x3 meter surface, 30 cm, portable canvas then out at the locations of the measurements, from the light source to the ever-increasing distance. According to their preliminary plans, on the afternoon of February 22, laser at Waberer's Club Hotel in Balatonvilágos. Already for the first night they try to measure the total distance to 67 km, the present as set out in the Annex to the Protocol. If it fails to weather or technical due to obstacles, they will try the job the next night. The laser pointer is very accurate (within a centimeter can be moved on the projected image at a distance of 66 km), can be remotely controlled and able to store the position of the already measured positions parameters. If you are able to measure the total distance, you will repeat the experiment the next day and the third afternoon in the sun and in the evening, for as many measurement data as possible. The last day of 24-hour time laps will be recorded at to measure the refraction limits. The essence of the atmospheric refraction measurement experiment is how the principle is actually straight laser beam path in the atmosphere approx. 70 km along the water surface of Lake Balaton.
They also suggested that a tent was set up in the courtyard of the Waberer's Club Hotel, directly on the waterfront, and the precision table when assembled, laser light starts immediately. In the planned first position of the measurement at Siófok pier, approx. 12 km away, some of the participants mentioned above will be located, trying to locate the light spot during which they will be constantly in touch with the laser sighting team in the hotel yard. Once the light was found place the catch screen and determine the size of the spot. This is what the organizers want get into the Hungarian Records database.
Hermina Csömör, a Witness Laser Specialist, worked on the working laser on February 22, at 20:20, saying that the experiment laser is a highly focused (0.08 mRad beam divergence), DEROX 1 type, 532 nm wavelength, green, 100 Mw power laser light source.
After that, I was asked as a record leader to keep track of the record experiment on the spot with the help of the presenters indicated in the minutes. To determine the record data, the light emitting structure is external , Mike Cavanaugh and Sándor Székely, who conducted the experiment, commentary and statements about the size of the light spot for comparative measurements and ex-post evaluation of photos, Google map data and laser focusing data based geometrical calculation, time measurement of Atlantic branded Swiss analogue quartz wrist watches +/- 1 minute mid-winter time.
Then I added the following information. During the entire duration of the experiment, the places mentioned above are written continuously observed. In doing so we have determined the following:
1) A precision table for the light-emitting laser was started on February 22, at 17h15, in front of the hotel reception. The movable holder control electronics and the motors were assembled at 18 hrs at 20, then at 18.30, the driving mechanism was tried.
2) At 19 o'clock 05 at the hotel's yard behind the lakeshore protector, corresponding to the pre-calculated and designated direction the shelter was erected at which the scaffold was taken at 20:30. At 20 o'clock at 40 the support structure level was completed, the laser was mounted on the stand at 20:45, and was installed at 21h10. THE green laser beam above the watertight at 21h20, taking photographs, building metal using a measuring tape at the edge of the hotel's shore at +/- 5 cm. Measurement the result was 160 cm.
3) After the start-up, a part of the team left for the Siófok pier, where on the coastal promenade 22 hours and between 23 and 20 minutes, they tried to find the spot where the light was hit, which had no effect.
4) On February 23, 2018, at 12h15, the organizers of the experiment decided to move the light source to a more stable, protected area, to the hotel's terrace facing the beach, where the support structure could be fixed in a more stable position set. After consulting the laser specialist, other wavelengths, power and focus the use of lasers that arrived at the scene during the afternoon and which were closed for up to 18 hours put into operation at the precision table.
5) At 18h30, using a blue visual instrument laser less focused on the earlier green beam a beam was directed towards the Siófok pier.
6) On the 23rd of February 2018, at 19h15, in the presence of Sándor Székely and several FECORE members, the Siófok pier they attempted to find a blue or mixed color laser light beam spread across the broader area. The search
As a result, Sándor Székely put the red light embankment on the pier at the pier at the tip of the pier in the direction of a hundred meters, he discovered a heavily diffused, dazzling light source from the direction of the hotel. Looking at the light source, the light was visible in a fifty-meter wide band, the field fading red, the field middle band with white color. Due to the high humidity due to absorption, it was not clearly evident the direct light beam can be determined.
7) On February 24, 2018, on the basis of previous experience, a new, more powerful, less focused green laser application, which came to the scene around 16 o'clock. Installation of the laser following the dramatically changed weather conditions, at 21h20 at 21:00 in the same place as the previous day's observation, in the middle of the pole of the Siófok pier. During the day arrived strong cold front, the temperature of +3 degrees Celsius in the morning dropped to -2 degrees Celsius, the front strong, almost 70 km / h with northeastern gusts and continuous wind, a wave of about one-two meters in the open water of Lake Balaton. The hotel with a higher performance, but less focused, green laser pocket on the terrace, the Siófok Pier illuminated by the lower beam of the light beam, it was briefly illuminated by the nearly 15 miles of the Siófok bay meter tall building roof. The beam could not be lowered, so it could be evaluated as a light spot for the measurement they would have been fit, they did not receive it during the experiment.
8) At 15.00 on February 25, 2018, participants in the experiment decided to select a closer point illumination. The under construction residential park behind the Galerius Experience Bath and Wellness Center in Siófok on the promenade of 8600 Siófok, Halápy János u. 2. Instead, they wanted to position the laser on a building crane on construction site the green light of the laser was not visible in daylight. The illumination experiment is therefore due at 20:00 at 10 pm They repeated. The laser light - the presence of the locals and the laser at the hotel's terrace with operators with connection - succeeded in the 8600 Siófok, Szent László u. 187, one of the semi-detached condominiums where at the height of the second floor a nearly ten meter diameter amorphous light spot appeared. The spotlight its size was again not suitable for accurate measurements. The laser beam was still not controlled here, while the distance from the Siófok jetty to 12 km has dropped below 8 km.
9) After a number of experiments, as no measurable projection could be produced, the extraordinary cold, windy weather, as well as the techniques employed in the days of the experiment with the applied lasers and their positioning the organizers decided to carry out a long distance record experiment with difficulty. At their disposal
standing china made with a blue laser wavelength of 460 nm with a laser pointer rating of up to 1000 mW to set up the home record of the greatest distance from hand. With laser pointer on the hotel's upstairs terrace standing Edgár Holovitz, a member of FECORE, succeeded to the observation group, the summer beach as a party dresser, a metal cylinder of about 2 meters in diameter and 2 meters high, which is the 8600 Siofok, St. László street residential area and Csúszda utca at the junction of the coastal promenade, which is part of the city's free beach in summer. THE the distance between Google Earth and Google Maps was 0.1 km to 7.7 km.
10) After the successful manual targeting, the organizers concluded that the precision rack For all high-performance lasers, it is necessary to look at the cause of the failure later, but the success manual laser pointer experiment suggests that no air at a temperature of around -5 degrees Celsius may have any specific its optical property caused the ineffectiveness of the experiment series.
11) With this record attempt, FECORE Inc. and Holovitz Edgár set 7.7 km for manual laser pointer with the largest distances.
The on-site record was closed and authenticated by my signature and the stamp of the Hungarian Records
István Sebestyén, undersigned, minute record leader and Hermina Csömör, a contributor to the light source in the experiments we are attesting to the facts in this Protocol that have met the above requirements and rules and which are supported on two pages by a signed document signed on the spot.
Made on two sides, signed in four original copies.
Annex: digital photos, handwritten notes
Done at Balatonvilagos on 26 February 2018
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Some interesting information from Twitter with hastag #BalatonLaser, concerning the document listed above that FECORE presented as an award from the country of Hungary.
'Findings: FECORE shone a laser into some fog. We have not seen this before in our country and are therefore proud to award them with the record for...
"BIGGEST LASER SHONE INTO SOME FOG OVER A LAKE IN HUNGRY"'
https://twitter.com/hashtag/balatonlaser
And FECORE is trying to present this as some kind of great new achievement. That’s unbelievable folks!
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Experimental inconsistencies:
The following article by the World Record Academy lists a 136.8 km laser test in China. That may be a land record, much longer than the "World Record Laser Test" at Lake Balaton that FECORE advertised this would be.
https://www.worldrecordacademy.com/technology/most_powerful_handheld_laser_Wicked_Lasers_sets_world_record_112457.html
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Experimental inconsistencies:
The tallest member of the FECORE team is 1.86-meters or 6.1-feet.
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How to prove flatness:
The mathematics of high school geometry offers us several ways to assure flatness.
A POINT is a single location. It has no size (no width, no length and no depth)
2 points are needed to create a LINE
3 points are needed to define a two dimensional surface called a PLANE.
A PLANE is flat with zero curvature: it has a constant unit normal direction
There are several ways to verify that a line is parallel to a plane. Our case in point, is that we want the laser beam to shine parallel to the water's surface, the entire way that it transverses.
High school geometry offers us several ways to assure that lines / surfaces are parallel...
Same-Side Interior Angles Postulate
Alternate Interior Angles Theorem
Corresponding Angles Theorem
Alternate Exterior Angles Theorem
What is leveling?
Leveling is the process by which difference in height between two or more points can be determined.
Leveling is a branch of surveying, the object of which is to find or establish the elevation of a given point with respect to the given assumed Datum (reference point).
Common leveling instruments include the spirit level, the dumpy level, the digital level, and the laser level.
Laser Level:
Has a compensator similar to Automatic Level
Radiates a laser beam 360 through line of collimation
Laser is then picked up by a receiver to indicate line of collimation
Some lasers are self-leveling
Survey quality laser levels are designed with two features; visible or non-visible, and rotating or non-rotating
Leveling Errors:
There are a large number of potential sources of errors in leveling. Many of these are only significant for precise leveling over long distances. For short segment of leveling that will occur in connecting a TGBM to nearby benchmarks there are only four worth mentioning;
collimation error, error due to Earth curvature, error due to parallax error, and error due to refraction.
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How to work with laser, OR, what you need to know.
Before lasers and electronic targets came into use, alignment consisted of sighting through two points, near and far, and deciding if an object placed in-between them was to the left or right, or up or down with respect to this LOS (line of sight). this choosing of two reference points is still the most important selection process of a straightness survey.
The two reference points should be located close enough to be convenient to use and/or out of the way of other people working in the area.
A typical application to establish a level plane is to put three or more targets at the same (desired) waterline location and adjust the structure the targets are on until all targets read the same.
Single target laser alignment is not recommended.
The main disadvantage of early alignment laser systems is that they only employed a single target. A target placed at a reference station establishes one end of the LOS; the center of the laser beam is the other end of the LOS. the laser source is first carefully aimed at the center of the target. then the operator moves the target from its reference position to use it at intermediate locations.
There are two significant problems with single target laser alignment:
a) the operator is unaware of any movement of the laser beam; and
b) alignment errors are introduced unless laser position at Reference is frequently checked
When two target laser alignment is used the measurement becomes more accurate; the addition of a Reference target situated at the end of the LOS constantly monitors beam position. the target used by the operator to allow passage of light to the Reference target is termed the Alignment or transparent Target.
A propagating laser beam does not remain parallel as is frequently assumed. Even with “perfect” projection optics the laser beam obeys the laws of physics; the dominant law here is diffraction. All laser beams follow a prescribed propagation characteristic that depends on two conditions: how the beam was launched, and what type of disturbed it encounters along it path. the first is greatly controllable; the second is usually not.
How a laser beam behaves after it is launched are: initial diameter and wavelength.
For a given wavelength, the larger the initial diameter the less the beam will spread with distance. For a given distance, a laser beam with a long wavelength will grow in diameter faster than a laser beam of a shorter wavelength. these propagation characteristics are embedded in the exact equation below which is a result of electromagnetic theory.
A beam of light propagating in a vacuum obeys the laws of diffraction and is not affected by any other source. the index of refraction for a vacuum is defined as exactly equal to one (1). However, in an atmosphere the beam will behave differently. the index of refraction of air being slightly larger than one causes changes in the propagation characteristics of a light beam. the two dominant effects on the beam are to make it move or quiver, and the other is commonly called scintillation which means the intensity of the light beam varies as a function of time.
Concerning the effects of atmospheric turbulence on propagating light - the index of refraction of air being different along the path length causes these two effects. the index of refraction of air is strongly affected by temperature, and to a lesser extent pressure and water vapor pressure (humidity).
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References:
Principles and Practice of surveying
http://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/PS-Reference-Handbook.pdf
Text excerpts from here
http://www.on-trak.com/laser-alignment.html
Text excerpts from here
http://slideplayer.com/slide/4767515/
Fair use is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder.
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