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LESSON 4 · Physics in the Real World

PAUSE TO THINK

Has time dilation ever been measured between two floors of a building?

Yes

Using ultra-precise aluminum ion clocks, NIST researchers detected gravitational time dilation over about one foot of height. The lower clock ticked slower by about 4 parts in ten to the seventeenth — exactly matching Einstein's prediction.

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