Einstein's Elevator Ilustration (IMAGE)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Einstein's Elevator Ilustration

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Einstein's elevator: As the Earth falls like an elevator in the sun's gravity, atomic clocks based on hydrogen and cesium maintain the same synchronicity in their ticking properties. NIST physicists just measured this phenomenon better than ever before.

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K. Rechin/NIST

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