Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time

@article{Kennedy1932ExperimentalEO,
 title={Experimental Establishment of the Relativity of Time},
 author={ROY J. Kennedy and Edward M. Thorndike},
 journal={Physical Review},
 year={1932},
 volume={42},
 pages={400-418},
 url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:121519138}
}
None of the fundamental experiments on which the restricted principle of relativity is based requires for their explanation that the classical concept of absolute time be modified; the present experiment was devised to test directly whether time satisfies the requirements of relativity. It depends on the fact that if a pencil of homogeneous light is split into two components which are made to interfere after traversing paths of different length, their relative phases will depend on the...

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