Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time

R. Kennedy; E. M. Thorndike

DOI:10.1103/PHYSREV.42.400

Corpus ID: 121519138

Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time

@article{Kennedy1932ExperimentalEO,
  title={Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time},
  author={R. Kennedy and E. M. Thorndike},
  journal={Physical Review},
  year={1932},
  volume={42},
  pages={400-418}
}

R. Kennedy, E. M. Thorndike
Published 1932
Physics
Physical Review

None of the fundamental experiments on which the restricted principle of relativity is based requires for their explanation that the classical concept of absolute time be modified; the present experiment was devised to test directly whether time satisfies the requirements of relativity. It depends on the fact that if a pencil of homogeneous light is split into two components which are made to interfere after traversing paths of different length, their relative phases will depend on the… Expand

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