General Relativity Einstein/Essen Anniversary Test
Posted on June 25, 2009 Comments (2)

Project GREAT: General Relativity Einstein/Essen Anniversary Test is not your average home experiment but it is another great example of experiments people run at home.
By keeping the clocks at altitude for a weekend we were able to detect and measure the effects of relativistic time dilation compared to atomic clocks we left at home. The amazing thing is that the experiment worked! The predicted and measured effect was just over 20 nanoseconds.
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But the time dilation was somewhere in the 20 to 30 ns range. The number we expected was 23 ns so I’m very pleased with the result.
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July 7th, 2009 @ 2:46 pm
While reading this, I’m listening to an audiobook of Cormac McCarthy’s book and the entire time I listen to it reminds me of the relativity of time Einstein has proposed. It’s been a long while since people actually made an effort to make Einstein remembered and it’s great to know you people are still doing this.
August 29th, 2009 @ 8:19 am
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