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General Science / Re: How important is E=mc^2
« on: 07/05/2005 18:55:36 »
Andrew
That program was written several years and computers ago- seems to me that I ran it as a function on an Excel spreadsheet. I'll have a look around and see if I can find it- but can't make any promises.
What it compared was the longitudinal position of the moon with the longitudinal position of the earthquakes (plus or minus 10 degrees). I also examined correlation with the far side of the earth and perpendicular to earth-moon axis (to examine both high and low tides). I did not take into consideration latitudinal position, but I don't think this would have changed the correlation coefficients. I used an NOAA database showing spring and neap tides to calculate the coefficient with sun-moon alignment, and used a NASA database to get the perihelion, aphelion, apogee and perigee times.
Earthquake data came from a USGS worldwide database showing time, magnitude, depth and position of past earthquakes- like I said, several years ago so I don't remember the specific web site.
Then I plugged all this into a massive spreadsheet- in fact, I had to break into smaller spreadsheets (magnitude and depth) because my computer at the time kept running out of memory.
Prediction is difficult, especially the future. -Niels Bohr
That program was written several years and computers ago- seems to me that I ran it as a function on an Excel spreadsheet. I'll have a look around and see if I can find it- but can't make any promises.
What it compared was the longitudinal position of the moon with the longitudinal position of the earthquakes (plus or minus 10 degrees). I also examined correlation with the far side of the earth and perpendicular to earth-moon axis (to examine both high and low tides). I did not take into consideration latitudinal position, but I don't think this would have changed the correlation coefficients. I used an NOAA database showing spring and neap tides to calculate the coefficient with sun-moon alignment, and used a NASA database to get the perihelion, aphelion, apogee and perigee times.
Earthquake data came from a USGS worldwide database showing time, magnitude, depth and position of past earthquakes- like I said, several years ago so I don't remember the specific web site.
Then I plugged all this into a massive spreadsheet- in fact, I had to break into smaller spreadsheets (magnitude and depth) because my computer at the time kept running out of memory.
Prediction is difficult, especially the future. -Niels Bohr