The gravitational phase shift test of general relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-02-22 v3 Astrophysics
Optics
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to study the extra phase shift that general relativity (GR) predicts for a radial light ray propagating in the vicinity of a static spherical symmetric body. It appears that the gravitational phase shift test yields a better sensitivity than the gravitational frequency shift or the excess time delay of the photons. An experiment is proposed for this new test of GR pertaining exclusively to the wave aspect of light.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0802.1992,
title = {The gravitational phase shift test of general relativity},
author = {Jean Paul Mbelek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.1992},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure. The abstract and experiments description are lengthened ; typos and sign errors corrected