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Hafele-Keating Experiment Celebrating Its 50th Anniversary

Wyoming Public Media
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Hafele-Keating experiment, a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
40 months ago

Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains

Science | AAAS
During October 1971, four cesium beam atomic clocks were flown on regularly scheduled commercial jet flights around the world twice, once eastward and once...
38 months ago

Einstein was right. Flying clocks around the world in opposite directions proved it.

Big Think
Time isn't the same for everyone, even on Earth. Flying around the world gave Einstein the ultimate test. No one is immune from relativity.
30 months ago

The Moon Needs Its Own Time Zone. Relativity Says It Also Needs Its Own Clocks

EEJournal
First, the moon needs its own timekeeping system because it sits in a different spacetime gravity well.
2 months ago

Would you really age more slowly on a spaceship at close to light speed?

MIT Technology Review
Every week, the readers of our space newsletter, The Airlock, send in their questions for space reporter Neel V. Patel to answer.
60 months ago

Will we ever be able to freeze time?

BBC
We have been fascinated with the possibility of sidestepping time, from fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty to stasis fields and suspended animation in science...
75 months ago

Time travel into the future is already possible

Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Hafele–Keating experiment showed that time slowed down with increased speed (Getty Images) Time travel happens all the time: we're...
98 months ago

Fig.10: Scalar value caused by an object at one point. The gradient in...

ResearchGate
Download scientific diagram | Scalar value caused by an object at one point. The gradient in the resultant scalar field is the physical reason for gravity.
81 months ago

Hafele–Keating experiment – Two atomic clocks flew twice around the world, eastward and westward. Back at home, they each showed different times

The Vintage News
The Hafele–Keating experiment was a test of the theory of relativity. In October 1971, Joseph C. Hafele, a physicist, and Richard E. Keating...
98 months ago