Foucault pendulum at the South Pole: Proposal for an experiment to detect the Earth's general relativistic gravitomagnetic field

An experiment is proposed for measuring the earth's gravitomagnetic field by monitoring its effect on the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum at the south pole ("dragging of inertial frames by earth's rotation"). With great effort a 10% experiment in a measurement time of sever...

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Published in:Physical Review Letters
Main Authors: Braginsky, Vladimir B., Polnarev, Aleksander G., Thorne, Kip S.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 1984
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Online Access:https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3753/
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Summary:An experiment is proposed for measuring the earth's gravitomagnetic field by monitoring its effect on the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum at the south pole ("dragging of inertial frames by earth's rotation"). With great effort a 10% experiment in a measurement time of several months might be achieved.

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