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Measurement of the gravitational red shift with the Mössbauer effect

T E Cranshaw1 and J P Schiffer2

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The shift in frequency of electromagnetic radiation as it passes through a difference in gravitational potential has been measured by use of the Mössbauer effect in 57Fe. The result is 0.859 ± 0.085 times the value predicted by Einstein's theory of relativity, the error being a standard deviation. The discrepancy is most likely due to chance since the probability of obtaining a deviation of at least this magnitude is 10%.


PACS

95.30.Sf Relativity and gravitation

95.30.Ky Atomic and molecular data, spectra, and spectral parameters (opacities, rotation constants, line identification, oscillator strengths, gf values, transition probabilities, etc.)

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

Subjects

Atomic and molecular physics

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 2 (August 1964)

Received 4 February 1964



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