On 11/13/06, Mark S Bilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If an electric field could alter the rate of flow of time, wouldn't it have been noticed? For example, two gas lasers (e.g., the widely used CW helium-neon) would produce a beat frequency if the voltage across their gas discharge tubes were different and their beams were combined on a nonlinear detector. Differences in power supply regulation would change the beat frequency when the line voltage changed.
Better still, take a single laser and a beam splitter and subject one path to a large electrical gradient. As you vary the voltage the interference pattern would change. No, this is way too easy. We *would* have noticed it. Terry
