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Google web search: general and historical-record queries

Queries and what each returned [web: google.com result pages]:

  1. "Silvertooth" "experimental detection of the ether": rexresearch1 PDF (w.rexresearch1.com/Books/SilvertoothExperimentalDetectionEther.pdf); Studocu copy; Marett replication; naturalphilosophy wiki; Forbes; Scribd copy; terraforma.life blog; arXiv astro-ph/0608223 (Navia et al.); viXra 1406.0045 (cites Marett and Silvertooth).
  2. Marett "Replication of the Silvertooth Experiment": conspiracyoflight.com; Forbes; rxiv.org 1508.0178 "Absolute/Relative Motion and the Speed of Light"; scienceforums.net thread; mctoon.net/relativity; progress-in-physics 2017 PP-49-10 "Null Result for Cahill's 3-Space Gravitational Wave ..." (not opened).
  3. site:rexresearch1.com OR site:rexresearch.com Silvertooth: the SST PDF and Marinov's "The thorny way of truth" (rexresearch.com/MarinovLibrary/thorny_waytruth7.pdf). Not opened (time).
  4. Silvertooth "Motion through the ether" spirit-science.fr: EWW 1989 PDF; cd3wdproject.net "New Energy Technology (PACE, 1990)" says "Silvertooth has detected our motion through the ether"; aetherscience.org Aspden book.
  5. site:dtic.mil Silvertooth: no results.
  6. Silvertooth "Rome Air Development Center" OR RADC "standing wave" OR ether OR interferometer: R. G. Newburgh, RADC/Deputy for Electronic Technology, Hanscom AFB, "Relativistic phase invariance: comments on a recent effort to reinvoke the ether", Applied Optics 1977 (opg.optica.org; copy at i-logic.com/relativity/Silvertooth4.pdf). A comment by an Air Force RADC physicist in 1977, before the 1986 RADC/DARPA sponsorship statement. The Hungarian forum index.hu quotes the RADC/DARPA funding sentence.
  7. Silvertooth "Special relativity" Nature 322 590 1986: Nature doi 10.1038/322590b0, issue 14 Aug 1986, 26 citations; ADS 1986Natur.322..590S; Selleri, "Theories Equivalent to Special Relativity" (Springer) cites Silvertooth; Poquet 2005 (Apeiron) cites Silvertooth and Aspden. A Facebook snippet suggests the Nature letter begins "SIR―Aspden ...", i.e. it may be a reply to Harold Aspden. Unverified.
  8. "Silvertooth" Orcas Island OR Olga obituary 2000 physicist OR optics: no obituary found. A Library and Archives Canada new-books list (publications.gc.ca, Mar 2000) lists "The Silvertooth effect: TETET-99", S. Silvertooth, D. G. Lahoz, Angel Garcia, Toronto: Universitas Americae (UNIAM), 1999.
  9. "Silvertooth effect" TETET: findbookprices: ISBN 978-0968308547, 211 pages, 1999. Who "S. Silvertooth" is (Wilbur, a relative, or another person) is unknown.
  10. Silvertooth Paramount "relay condenser" Academy award 1941 OR 1942: atogt.com (Academy awards database), Wikipedia, cinemasight. Confirms the 14th Academy Awards (1941, presented 1942) Class III Scientific or Technical award to "Wilbur Silvertooth and the Paramount Studio Engineering Department for the design and computation of a relay condenser system applicable to transparency process projection".
  11. Aspden "Silvertooth" site:aspden.org: no results.
  12. Marinov "Silvertooth" repetition OR "coupled mirrors" Speculations 1987: Marinov's "The Thorny Way of Truth" (Scribd; Yumpu; rexresearch) contains his letter to Silvertooth of 1 Nov 1986 and the phrase "Silvertooth-Marinov experiments". The DESY/UCR FAQ "Experimental Basis of Special Relativity"; Fandom "Experiments that apparently..." lists Silvertooth among experiments with "major conceptual errors" (that page's characterization); ResearchGate "New Measurement of the Earth's Absolute Velocity" cites Silvertooth with De Haan, Múnera, Spavieri and Wesley.
  13. site:cellularcosmology.org Silvertooth: only a resources page (the Scholar PDF link points there). Not opened.
  14. "Silvertooth" "standing wave" contract OR report RADC OR DARPA OR "Air Force" 1984 OR 1985 OR 1986: the S. F. Jacobs CV at the University of Arizona (optics.arizona.edu, CV_JacobsSF_051613) lists the 1983 paper; Wireless World Nov 1986 (worldradiohistory.com) discusses "experimental discovery reported by E.W. Silvertooth in the 14th August issue of Nature"; aetherscience.org Aspden text: "a recent experiment performed under U.S. Air Force sponsorship has shown that ...".
  15. site:worldradiohistory.com Silvertooth: Wireless-World-1986-11.pdf; Wireless-World-1989-11.pdf (follow-up to the May 1989 article); an RCA Broadside item on "Mr. E. W. Silvertooth of Paramount Pictures" and a lens-speed paper. Not opened (time).

Absence of evidence: the RADC/DARPA sponsorship

  • The 1986 paper says RADC (Griffiss AFB) and DARPA sponsored the work "in part". Searching DTIC through Google returned nothing (query 5). No contract number, report or technical memo was found.
  • What is in the record: an RADC physicist (Newburgh, RADC at Hanscom) published a critical comment in 1977. The Arizona OSC FY75 report is cited in 1976. Aspden (aetherscience.org) refers to "U.S. Air Force sponsorship".
  • Competing explanations for the silence: (a) small, informal or in-kind support that never produced a DTIC report; (b) reports exist but are not indexed by Google (DTIC full search not yet tried directly); (c) the work was restricted, and the wiki says his Air Force think-tank work was classified, though that concerns earlier employment; (d) the statement overstated the sponsorship. Records that would decide: DTIC direct search (discover.dtic.mil) for "Silvertooth" and "standing wave sensor"; RADC history office (Griffiss) and AFRL/RI Rome; DARPA program records; FOIA; the Univ. of Arizona OSC FY75 Applied Optics Research Report.