Update on Devasia Santosh's Lorentz Violation Research

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Santosh Devasia managed to get a kook paper past the referees at Eur Phys J: "Lorentz violation in high-energy ions," 2010 http://www.springerlink.com/content/b55166258582206j/fulltext.pdf Eur.Phys.J.C69:343-346,2010. I guess this shows that even a reputable journal can mess up horribly once in a while. Devasia is a professor of mechanical engineering at UW. He has links to the same tribe of kooks as Assis. Devasia has posted in various online forums under user names such as weber2 and weber3:

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=453966

http://www.bautforum.com/showthread...contradiction-of-relativity?highlight=devasia

http://www.natscience.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/relativity/16572/Experimental-Evidence-of-Lorentz-Violation

Devasia's paper reinterprets previous experiments of the Ives-Stilwell type as showing Lorentz violation, even though the people who did those experiments interpreted them as confirming Lorentz invariance. A good, detailed anlysis is available here:

http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath090/kmath090.htm

The reason I'm posting this now is that I came across a rebuttal published in a refereed journal:

A. Sfarti, Eur Phys J C 71 (2011) 1540.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l5802634606m0245/
 
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