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Apologies if this is naive, I was looking for a free book for a flight a week ago and I downloaded 'The Einstein theory of relativity; a concise statement' by H
by jboy55 9y ago
Apologies if this is naive, I was looking for a free book for a flight a week ago and I downloaded 'The Einstein theory of relativity; a concise statement' by H A Lorentz, 1920, available here https://archive.org/details/einsteintheoryr00einsgoog https://archive.org/details/einsteintheoryr00einsgoog as well.
On page 22, Lorentz states a 3rd experimental test for the theory, "If his (Einstein) theory is correct as it stands, there ought, in a gravitational field, to be a displacement of the lines of the spectrum towards the red." He adds, "No such effect has been discovered. ... there is no way of accounting for this failure if Einstein's theory in its present form is assumed."
He goes on to say that some modification would be necessary. What eventually happened to this 3rd test?
- whatshisface 9y agoHere's the wikipedia page for the test you're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_redshift >The first accurate measurement of the gravitational redshift of a white dwarf was done by Popper in 1954, measuring a 21 km/sec gravitational redshift of 40 Eridani B. The effect has been seen in experiments. (See the section on experimental verification.)
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