Most precise test yet of Einstein's gravitational redshift

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While airplane and rocket experiments have proved that gravity makes clocks tick more slowly — a central prediction of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity — a new experiment in an atom interferometer measures this slowdown 10,000 times more accurately than before, and finds it to be exactly what Einstein predicted.


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And co-authored by a member of the President's cabinet, too. Now there's something you don't see every day.
 
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