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Pieces of Einstein’s 1905 Puzzle

2005; AIP Publishing; Volume: 58; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.4797230

1945-0699

Jeremy Bernstein,

Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies

Although I am flattered by the reference to me in Alex Harvey and Engelbert Schucking’s article, I need to correct the record. Sometime in the late 1970s, while giving a lecture at the University of Maryland, I innocently stated Einstein’s prediction about the polar and equatorial clocks. It had not occurred to me that the prediction was wrong. After the lecture Carroll O. Alley came up to me and pointed out the error. He also gave me some reprints in which he presents the correct theory and gives results that prove it with atomic clocks flown in airplanes. 1 1. C. O. Alley, in Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravity, and Measurement Theory, P. Meystre, M. O. Scully, eds., Plenum Press, New York (1983), p. 363 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3712-6_18. Alley is the hero of this tale and should be credited.REFERENCESection:ChooseTop of pageREFERENCE <<1. C. O. Alley, in Quantum Optics, Experimental Gravity, and Measurement Theory, P. Meystre, M. O. Scully, eds., Plenum Press, New York (1983), p. 363 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3712-6_18. Google ScholarCrossref© 2005 American Institute of Physics.