There have been many recent discussions of the 'replication crisis' in psychology and other social sciences.
This has been attributed, in part, to the fact that researchers hesitate to submit null results and journals fail to publish such results. In this book Allan Franklin and Ronald Laymon analyze what constitutes a null result and present evidence, covering a 400-year history, that null results play significant roles in physics.
Author(s): Allan Franklin, Ronald Laymon
Series: IOP Concise Physics
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 184
City: Bristol
PRELIMS.pdf
Acknowledgments
Author biographies
Allan Franklin
Ronald Laymon
CH001.pdf
Chapter 1 Introduction
References
CH002.pdf
Chapter 2 Galileo and free fall
References
CH003.pdf
Chapter 3 Newton’s pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter
3.1 Newton’s pendulum experiment
3.2 The experiments of Bessel and of Potter
References
CH004.pdf
Chapter 4 The Eötvös torsional pendulum
References
CH005.pdf
Chapter 5 The Fifth Force and Eötvös redux
5.1 The rise of the Fifth Force
5.2 Its fall
5.3 Tests of the weak equivalence principle
References
CH006.pdf
Chapter 6 Do falling bodies move south?
References
CH007.pdf
Chapter 7 The Michelson–Morley experiments of 1881 and 1887
7.1 The experiments
7.2 Reaction to the Michelson–Morley null result
7.3 Early replications by Morley and Dayton Miller
7.4 Einstein and beyond
7.5 Replications by Kennedy, Illingworth, Joos and others
References
CH008.pdf
Chapter 8 Dayton Miller and the ‘cosmic’ solution
8.1 Miller’s (1933) paper
8.2 Shankland’s 1955 reanalysis of Dayton Miller’s data
8.3 Roberts’ 2006 analysis of Dayton Miller’s data
References
CH009.pdf
Chapter 9 Physics beyond the standard model
9.1 Search for SUSY in multijet events with missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at 13 TeV (Sirunyan et al 2017)
9.2 Search for top squarks and dark matter particles in opposite-charge dilepton final states at √s = 13 TeV (Sirunyan et al 2018)
9.3 Discussion
References
CH010.pdf
Chapter 10 Neutrinoless double beta decay
10.1 The problem
10.2 The early experiments
10.3 The critics
10.4 The second generation experiments
10.5 Discussion
References
CH011.pdf
Chapter 11 Conclusion
11.1 How do we know it is null result?
11.1.1 The appraisal of systematic and statistical uncertainty
11.1.2 Sensitivity, calibration and surrogate signals
11.1.3 Idealization and approximation
11.1.4 Sensitivity with respect to data analysis
11.2 The roles of theory
11.2.1 Theories of the phenomena
11.2.2 Theories of the apparatus
11.3 Replication in physics and the social sciences
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