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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: energy, mass, and all that
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 01:19:32 GMT
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- jtbell@hubcap.clemson.edu (Jon Bell) writes:
-
- >Just out of curiosity, has anyone actually _observed_ the increased mass
- >(or weight) of a hot object? (I'm not disputing Matthew's statement, just
- >wondering if there is any direct experimental evidence for it.)
-
- I don't know-- I doubt it's been done in any direct way-- but I do know
- that the *time dilation* due to differences in thermal energy has been
- observed, by Mossbauer spectroscopy. Pound and Rebka had to correct for
- it in their famous gravitational-redshift experiment, in which they
- measured the redshift of photons traveling up a shaft in Jefferson Lab
- (and the blueshift of photons traveling down). They got bad results until
- they corrected for the temperature difference between the ends of the
- experiment. Iron-57 nuclei jiggling around at a higher temperature decay
- more slowly from their first excited state!
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- --
- Matt McIrvin
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