Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 1973
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1973natur.241..263p&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 241, Issue 5387, pp. 263 (1973).
Physics
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Scientific paper
CONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused by Hafele's suggestion1,2, subsequently supported by experiment3, that caesium beam clocks, borne by commercial jets circumnavigating the Earth, may provide supporting evidence for the famous prediction of Einstein's theory of relativity that if one member of a set of twins departs from the Earth in a spacecraft and later returns to reunite with his sibling, he will be the younger of the two. Strictly speaking, this statement is valid only if the frame of reference in which the home-bound sibling remains at rest is an inertial frame, which is not true of a frame of reference attached to the (rotating) Earth. This fact was ordinarily disregarded because the relative velocities involved were supposed to be much larger than the velocity difference caused by this circumstance. But in the case of clocks employed by Hafele and Keating3, this supposition is not true and the influence of Earth's rotation must be reckoned with.
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