Sorry, that won't do. What were the meals in abstracts you cited? If you don't know, then it invalidates those experiments as having any comparison to Meredith's stomach contents.
The
Infrared spectrometry based 13C-octanoic acid breath test in measuring human solid gastric emptying paper says the following about their test meal:
"Before measurement, the subjects consumed a standard test meal consisting of an egg yolk and two egg whites. The yolk was doped with 100 mg of 99%13C-octanoic acid (Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Andover, MA, USA) and the egg whites were mixed with a radiopharmaceutical, 1 mCi 99mTc-phytate (Daiichi Radioisotope Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan). The egg yolk and egg whites were homogenized separately, then added together and cooked by microwave. The egg was ingested with two slices of white bread coated with 7 g of margarine and 8 g of grape jelly, followed by 150 mL water. The total kilojoules of this test meal were 1088".
So what exactly about this "invalidates it as having any comparison" to Meredith's last meal, and how do you know this?
You said, "Had Meredith eaten a 700g steak, with a large baked potato and a huge pile of creamed spinach, all washed down with half a bottle of red wine, I'd agree with your assertion." So you agree that the content of the food plays a role in the time for gastric emptying, then you cite two papers that don't mention the content of the food in the abstracts.
Don't you remember? This exact issue has been dealt with by sources previously cited, which went in to the variations in t(lag) caused by different kinds and energy densities of food.
Really all you are doing here is reverting to the hilariously silly argument I characterised much earlier as "Since you've proved that the victim was murdered by someone over 190cm tall, it could as easily have been a four meter tall man as a two meter tall man". Sorry, four meter tall people still don't exist.
You can complain as much as you like about the fact that the only people whose height we measured were not wearing the exact same shoes as the killer, and did not have the exact same hairstyle of the killer, and argue that the test subjects were not walking on tippy-toes and the killer might have walked on tippy-toes, but if you add all of these spurious complaints together you're still not going to get a 4m tall killer or a t(lag) of five hours in a normal, healthy young woman eating a small-to-moderate sized meal of pizza.
Since you have done so much research, then you would know that the contents of stomach were recorded as 500 cc which is 500 ml, but this would only be 500g if it was pure water, but 500 cc would be 250g of flour for example, so you would need to know how much Meredith ate and what it consisted of before it was digested.
No. You don't need to know that. Well, it would be nice, just as it would be nice to know the length of the killer's legs, but whatever the hell that measurement turns out to be the killer is not going to be four meters tall and t(lag) is not going to be five hours for a normal, healthy young woman eating a small-to-moderate sized meal of pizza.
You should also know that the size of the meal has an effect on the lag phase by a large margin
according to studies, so saying "between 200g and 400g" is not precise.
You'll find that 200g meals do not have a five hour t(lag) time for normal, healthy young woman eating a small-to-moderate sized meal of pizza, and nor do 400g meals.
By the same token, the killer wasn't four meters tall whether he was a Massai or a pygmy.
