Hughes-Drever experiment

noun

Any of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.

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nounHughes-Drever experiment (plural Hughes-Drever experiments)

plural Hughes-Drever experiments

  1. natural sciencesAny of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.

Origin

Named after Vernon W. Hughes and Ronald Drever, who independently conducted experiments of this kind in the early 1960s.

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