Atom interferometer provides most precise test yet of Einstein's gravitational redshift
Scientists measure interference between matter waves separated by 0.1 mm
22-Feb-2010 -
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 ...
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