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Article: Clocks test Einstein vs. Mach. (Albert Einstein, Ernst Mach)
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- June 22, 1985
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Clocks test Einstein vs. March
It is almost 70 years since Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity. The theory has become physicists' standard theory of gravity and the basis of modern cosmology. Yet that has not prevented a steady stream of physicists, discontented with some of its provisions or some of its principles, from trying to amend, rearrange or replace it. So far Einstein's theory has survived experimental tests. The latest test, done recently at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Boulder, Colo., also corroborates Einstein's theory. The experiment concerns one of the foundation principles of the theory, Einstein's idea of ...