Contends that "the velocity of light should regain its character as the fundamental reference which it deserves. . .this constant demonstrates the most intimate union between space and time."
The purpose of this communication is to show that the controllable orbit of an artificial planet can be selected to yield a very large relativity advance of perihelion under certain conditions.
In German.
Translated title: Experimental proof of theory of special relativity.
Paper given at the International Geophysical Year, Rocket and Satellite Conference, Washington, D.C., Sept. 30-Oct. 5, 1957.
In a suggestion for measuring the gravitational displacement of frequency it is proposed that one measures not the frequency but the difference between the readings on clocks on earth and the readings of clocks on the satellite.
A further note concerning the writer's query of atomic clock makers about the eventual feasibility of clocks possessing such precision as to permit the detection of a relativistic effect, by comparing the time signals of two identical synchronized clocks carried to two altitudes, A and B, differing by some 5,000 meters.
The clock problem, p.190-198.
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