A thought experiment with clocks in static gravity

DOI10.1142/S0217732300002310zbMATH Open0978.83010arXivhep-ph/0010256OpenAlexW2072195171MaRDI QIDQ2726088

Lev B. Okun

Publication date: 12 July 2001

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In order to directly demonstrate that in static gravitational field the rate of clocks increases with their distance from the source a simple thought experiment is proposed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0010256

zbMATH Keywords

static gravityclocks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Special relativity (83A05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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