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Old 23-02-2010, 10:36 PM
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Most Precise Test Yet of Einstein's Gravitational Redshift

A nice experiment demonstrating that gravity changes the flow of time, just like the great man said it would.

ScienceDaily (Feb. 18, 2010)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0217131125.htm

Holger Müller says:
"If we used our best clocks, with 17-digit precision, in global positioning satellites, we could determine position to the millimeter," he said. "But lifting a clock by 1 meter creates a change in the 16th digit".

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