Relativitaet auf dem Pruefstand Scene Info click for Module Menu Start Branching Point Module: Relativitaet auf dem Pruefstand Sequence: Start Slide: Branching Point: Putting relativity to the test - Was Einstein right ? Sequence: (1) Time Dilation Slide: Moving keeps you young Slide: Time dilation at different speeds Slide: Test of Time Dilation Slide: "Race-track" for Ions Slide: Atoms are very precise clocks Slide: Laser spectroscopy with fast Ions Slide: Doppler Effect Slide: Time dilation confirmed anew Sequence: (2) equivalence principle Slide: All Objects Fall the Same Way Slide: In the Vacuum All Objects Fall With the Same Speed Slide: Elevator Thought Experiment Slide: Tests: From Galilei to Newton Slide: Test Masses of STEP Slide: STEP: A modern experiment of free fall Slide: Sequence: (3) Shapiro Slide: Echos from satellites are very late Slide: The Experiment Slide: The Cassini Satellite Sequence: (4) GP-B Slide: Tops are tilting in the gravitational field of the Earth Slide: Slide: Perfect Spheres Slide: The Gravity Probe B Satellite Back Forward "Race-track" for Ions For the time being the most precise test of time dilation was performed in 2004 by the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. Ions run on a "race-track" with a speed of 19000 km per second. [ Sitemap ] [ info ] This website was created with Virtual Spaces.