Re: The Shapiro's experiment HOAX. A 1968 TIME article.

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:36:33 +0000, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:05:22 +0000, rhertz wrote:
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You are the one who started this by asserting that passive reflections
of EM radiation decay with 1/r^4, and not the usual 1/r².

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But it is a well-known fact that the received power of the reflected
radar signal from a point target goes as 1/r^4.
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Look up the "radar equation"
https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/outreach/doc/2018-07/lecture%202.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/radar-equation
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If the target cannot be modeled as a point, for instance if you are
reflecting off of the ground, or if the target, say, is a corner
reflector, then the equation will obviously be different.

Clarification: I should have qualified "corner reflector" with
the word "giant", of course. A small corner reflector that does
not intercept the entire output beam would also exhibit 1/r^4
behavior.