Hi Ben, Surprised to see you found the list. I am a friend of your father.
I was around back when those experiments were done. Alas, I was only involved, as many others were, in standing on the ground keeping it from moving while they got to fly overhead. 73....Bill....WB6BNQ Noneayour Bsnes wrote: > I teach physics, and I love the Hafele-Keating experiment as a way > to introduce relativity. Because the experiment has a lot of charisma, > it's cool to be able to show students photos of the men and the > clocks aboard the plane. The general relativity text by Hartle had > a photo that he claimed was of Hafele and Keating boarding a plane, > but it turns out that that was a mistake. Some actual photos from > the experiment have been available online for a while, but they were > low resolution. I've obtained and scanned copies of these at higher > resolution and posted them here: > http://www.lightandmatter.com/article/hafele_keating.html > > The copyright status of these photos varies, and in some cases is > difficult to determine. I've given what information I had on the > web page. I'm in the U.S., where we have a pretty good fair use > exception to copyright, and for the photos that are copyrighted, > I think I have an excellent fair-use claim. > > I would be grateful to anyone who could e-mail me with any of the > following: > > -any biographical information about Hafele or Keating, and contact > information if they are still living > > -related historical photos that are in the public domain and of high > educational or historical interest > > -information about the copyright of the photo that appeared in > Popular Mechanics > > Is anyone on this list old enough to have been involved in > relativistic atomic clock experiments from that era? > > Regards, > > Ben Crowell > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
