Measuring Nothing, Repeatedly: Null Experiments in Physics

ISBN-13: 9781643277394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 185 str.

Allan Franklin; Ronald Laymon

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Author biographies
• Introduction
• Galileo and free fall
• Newton's pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter
• The Eötvös torsional pendulum
• The Fifth Force and Eötvös redux
• Do falling bodies move south?
• The Michelson-Morley experiments of 1881 and 1887
• Dayton Miller and the 'cosmic' solution
• Physics beyond the standard model
• Neutrinoless double beta decay
• Conclusion