UCB: Most precise test of Einstein's gravitational redshift

Find out the latest thinking about our universe.
Post Reply
User avatar
bystander
Apathetic Retiree
Posts: 21577
Joined: Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:06 pm
Location: Oklahoma

UCB: Most precise test of Einstein's gravitational redshift

Post by bystander » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:17 pm

Most precise test yet of Einstein's gravitational redshift
UC Berkeley News - 2010 Feb 17
While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly — a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity — a new experiment in an atom interferometer measures this slowdown 10,000 times more accurately than before, and finds it to be exactly what Einstein predicted.

The Code
2+2=5
Posts: 913
Joined: Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:39 pm
AKA: Swainy
Location: The Earth, The Milky Way, Great Britain

Relative values:

Post by The Code » Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:24 pm

Einstein theory proved in 21st-century test.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100217/sc ... 0217191256
Always trying to find the answers

Post Reply