Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 863 - 866 (1984)Foucault Pendulum at the South Pole: Proposal For an Experiment to Detect the Earth's General Relativistic Gravitomagnetic Field |
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Vladimir B. Braginsky
Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Aleksander G. Polnarev
Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Kip S. Thorne
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125
Received 12 March 1984
An experiment is proposed for measuring the earth's gravitomagnetic field by monitoring its effect on the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum at the south pole ("dragging of inertial frames by earth's rotation"). With great effort a 10% experiment in a measurement time of several months might be achieved.
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URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v53/p863
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.863
PACS: 04.80.+z
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