I am reading (very slowly) "Warped Passages" about physics and string theory and extra dimensions. It's a great book, and one of the examples was about how hard and how precise the experiments can be for super colliders. Apparently, there were two unexpected nearby events that were biasing the results in an unaccountable way until they were discovered. One was the moon's tidal effects on nearby Lake Geneva, and the other was a French train. It's effect was only noticed after a strike shut it down for a period of time!
I suspect that experiments related to "free" energy can be sensitive like that also.
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