Measurement of the gravitational red shift with the Mössbauer effect

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, , Citation T E Cranshaw and J P Schiffer 1964 Proc. Phys. Soc. 84 245 DOI 10.1088/0370-1328/84/2/307

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1 U.K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Berks.

2 Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A., and U.K. Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, Berks.

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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%.

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