Scene

Copyright

Module Menu

Module: Relativitaet auf dem Pruefstand

Sequence: Start

Slide:

Branching Point: Putting relativity to the test - Was Einstein right ?

Sequence: (1) Time Dilation

Slide: Moving keeps you young

Slide: Time dilation at different speeds

Slide: Test of Time Dilation

Slide: "Race-track" for Ions

Slide: Atoms are very precise clocks

Slide: Laser spectroscopy with fast Ions

Slide: Doppler Effect

Slide: Time dilation confirmed anew

Sequence: (2) equivalence principle

Slide: All Objects Fall the Same Way

Slide: In the Vacuum All Objects Fall With the Same Speed

Slide: Elevator Thought Experiment

Slide: Tests: From Galilei to Newton

Slide: Test Masses of STEP

Slide: STEP: A modern experiment of free fall

Slide: Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle

Sequence: (3) Shapiro

Slide: Echos from satellites are very late

Slide: The Experiment

Slide: The Cassini Satellite

Sequence: (4) GP-B

Slide: Tops are tilting in the gravitational field of the Earth

Slide:

Slide: Perfect Spheres

Slide: The Gravity Probe B Satellite

Back

Forward

"Race-track" for Ions

For the time being the most precise test of time dilation was performed in 2004 by the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg.

Ions run on a "race-track" with a speed of 19000 km per second.

[ Sitemap ] [ info ] This website was created by the MPI for the History of Science.