Foucault Pendulum at the South Pole: Proposal For an Experiment to Detect the Earth's General Relativistic Gravitomagnetic Field

Vladimir B. Braginsky, Aleksander G. Polnarev, and Kip S. Thorne
Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 863 – Published 27 August 1984
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Abstract

An experiment is proposed for measuring the earth's gravitomagnetic field by monitoring its effect on the plane of swing of a Foucault pendulum at the south pole ("dragging of inertial frames by earth's rotation"). With great effort a 10% experiment in a measurement time of several months might be achieved.

  • Received 12 March 1984

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.863

©1984 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Vladimir B. Braginsky

  • Physics Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Aleksander G. Polnarev

  • Space Research Institute, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Kip S. Thorne

  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125

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Vol. 53, Iss. 9 — 27 August 1984

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