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From: myers@bnl.UUCP (eric myers)
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Subject: Re: Experimental verification of General Relativity
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 14:50:13 EST
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> For an everyday experimental verification of GR, Hafele and
> Keating flew Cesium beam atomic clocks around the world on
> commerical jetliners in the early '70s. One clock went East,
> one went West, and one "stayed home" [like the third little
> piggie]. ... 
> 
> The work was published in Phys. Rev. Letters.

The experiment is also described in J.D. Jackson's book "Electrodynamics",
(page 521).  The reference to the experiment is :

     J.C. Hefele, R.E. Keating, Science, vol 177, pg 166, 168 (1972)

		Eric Myers
		Brookhaven National Laboratory