Gravity, Equivalence Principle and Clocks
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String theory suggests the existence of gravitational-strength scalar fields (“dilaton” and “moduli”) whose couplings to matter violate the equivalence principle. This provides a new motivation for highprecision clock experiments, as well as a generic theoretical framework for analyzing their significance.
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تاریخ انتشار 1997