Gravitational Red-Shift in Nuclear Resonance
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The gravitational redshift was confirmed in a lab experiment by Pound, Rebka and Snider, verifying the general relativity prediction with a relative accuracy of 10% (and later <1%).
“It is only in 1959 that the gravitational redshift is confirmed in a lab experiment by Pound, Rebka and Snider [1, 2, 3, 4]. Two gammaray emitting iron nuclei at different heights were compared, verifying GR prediction with a relative accuracy of 10% (and later < 1%).”
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“…and receiver (v = 0), and for better illustration, it is mostly supposed (although not required) that both the emitter and receiver are positioned in the same vertical one above the other, noting that also the famous Pound and Rebka experiment was carried out in this way (Pound and Rebka 1959).”
BackgroundA lab-based test of the gravitational redshift with a miniature clock network
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“It is only in 1959 that the gravitational redshift is confirmed in a lab experiment by Pound, Rebka and Snider [1, 2, 3, 4].”
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A new test of gravitational redshift using Galileo satellites: The GREAT experiment
Delva, P., Puchades, N., Schönemann, E., Dilssner, F., Courde, C., Bertone, S., Gonzalez, F., Hees, A., Le Poncin-Lafitte, C., Meynadier, F., et al. (2019) · Comptes Rendus. Physique · doi:10.1016/j.crhy.2019.04.002 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
- Authors
- Pound, R. V., & Rebka, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1959-11-01
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 439-441
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2020453555
- Cited by
- 389
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 17.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Relativity and Gravitational Theory
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Condensed Matter Physics › Crystallography and Radiation Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Nuclear physics research studies
- Keywords
- gravitational redshift, nuclear resonances, nuclear magnetic resonance, general relativity
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