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wryme · 4812 days ago · link · · parent · post: Professor Einstein, you can relax. E still equals mc2. Probably …
They have rechecked their calculations more than 15000 times, but to my knowledge, they have not yet repeated the experiment (I could be wrong). It doesn't matter if all 15000 calculations are right if the measurements are wrong. That just means that one small error in their procedure or measurements spawned 15000 misleading calculations.
I think that, to sway the skeptics, they would have to repeat this at least a few dozen times (ideally a few thousand times) and describe their methodology in great detail. Although I imagine that the reason they haven't done repeated trials is because such an experiment is likely to require much preparation and be quite expensive.