To the 10-12 approximation, a clock located on the earth's surface is slow when referred to a similar one at rest in the solar system and infinitely distant from the sun. There are four causes of the phenomenon: mass of the sun, circulation of the earth around the sun, mass, and rotation of the earth. The corresponding effects are calculated here without reference to the influence of the moon: qualitative arguments show that this influence is negligible to the aforesaid approximation; a rigorous theory of the moon's effects would involve a two-body relativistic theory.
In German. Not examined.
"It is maintained that part of the observed fluctuations is caused by the Lorentz contraction of the earth. It is also stated that clock corrections should have opposite signs in the northern and southern hemispheres. Data from northern and southern observatories are quoted in support of the author's thesis." Sci. Abs. 57A: 3055, 1954.
In Part II, further evidence is derived from observations of relative corrections at northern and southern stations for 1951-1954.
Reveals use of accelerator µ-mesons, under Atomic Energy Commission auspices, to verify clock-paradox prediction and cites other experiments on which verification is based, i.e., work by Blackett (Item 14), Rasetti (Item 184) and Rossi et al (Item 189).
The Einstein dilatation of time, p.407-408.
The argument about the life of space travelers, in which one side finds cogent support in Einstein's principles and the other in
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