Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!warwick!rpt From: rpt@warwick.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Fifth Force Message-ID: <406@snow.warwick.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 08:01:12 EST Article-I.D.: snow.406 Posted: Tue Feb 11 08:01:12 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 19:44:19 EST Reply-To: rpt@snow.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson) Organization: Applied Maths, Maths Institute, University of Warwick, UK. Lines: 14 Expires: References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: Xpath: ukc eagle I have read the article on the "Fifth Force" in Physical Review Letters and I find it hard to accept a theory based on a straight line graph with only 7 points plotted, one of which is so far from the line that it can be discounted. They say that the slope of the graph is remarkably close to that predicted by your formula but I think 6 points cannot be relied upon. When someone can repeat the experiment with more materials then the theory can be believed more easily. I will be very interested to receive people's comments. Richard Tomlinson -- ...!mcvax!ukc!warwick!rpt