An Undergraduate Demonstration of Gravitational Time Dilation

According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a clock runs more slowly if it is close to a large gravitating object. This principle was highlighted in the movie “Interstellar,” in which the main character spends several hours on a planet orbiting a massive black hole, and returns to find tha...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Physics teacher 2020-04, Vol.58 (4), p.268-270
Hauptverfasser: Patterson, Brian, Serna, Mario, Gearba, M. Alina, Olesen, Robert, O’Shea, Patrick, Schiller, Jonathan, Emanuel, David, Sell, Jerry F., Burns, M. Shane, Leveille, Michael D., Dominguez, Armand R., Gebhard, Brian B., Huestis, Samuel E., Steele, Jeffrey
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