Effect of the Earth's Revolution Around the Sun on the Proposed Gyroscope Test of the Lense-Thirring Effect
- 23 November 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 25 (21) , 1511-1512
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.25.1511
Abstract
We analyze the proposed Stanford experiment (precession of the spin of a gyroscope in an Earth satellite) to test the Lense-Thirring effect. We show that the sun also makes a contribution to the precession which must be included, particularly if one wishes to distinguish between the Einstein and Brans-Dicke theories.Keywords
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