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Towards a new test of general relativity?
 
23 March 2006

Experiment in ARC Seibersdorf research
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Overall picture of the experimental apparatus where the Gravitomagnetic London Moment in rotating superconductors has been detected.

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Gravitomagnetic induction of gravitational fields
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An angularly accelerated superconductive ring induces non-Newtonian gravitational fields in its neibourghood.

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Related links
ESA's General Studies ProgrammeARC Seibersdorf research GmbH (German)
In depth
Possible gravitational anomalies in quantum materials (pdf)
 
 
 
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