Open AccessON THE POSSIBILITY FOR A FOURTH TEST OF GENERAL RELATIVITY IN EARTH'S GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
Author(s) -
YuanZhong Zhang
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.31.1440
Subject(s) - physics , interferometry , gravitational field , general relativity , tests of general relativity , theory of relativity , two body problem in general relativity , gravitation , atom interferometer , gravitational time dilation , gravitational redshift , field (mathematics) , classical mechanics , optics , numerical relativity , astronomical interferometer , introduction to the mathematics of general relativity , mathematics , pure mathematics
In this work, the effect of Earth's gravitational field on a interferometer is calculated in gereral relativity. The result is that an expected fringe shift, about 10-10, will occur when the interferometer is rotated through 90° if the length of arms are 1 meter and wavelength of light is 1 μm.