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

• Published in: Physical Review Letters
• Main Authors: Braginsky, Vladimir B., Polnarev, Aleksander G., Thorne, Kip S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Physical Society 1984
• Subjects: South pole
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.863

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...