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Vienna University of Technology

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It is like jumping on and off a carousel: what happens to neutrons changing from a non-rotating frame of referendce into a rotating frame of reference - and back? 30 years ago, scientists predicted that this would lead to interesting interference effects, because neutron spin show a special kind of inertia. Now, this has been verified in an experiment.

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