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Einstein's Ring: Experiment to Measure the Accelerational Blue/Red-shift Produced by a Rotating Glass Annulus

An imagined experiment to use phosphorescent material to measure the accelerational blue/red-shift predicted by the Equivalence Principle.

 

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%E2%80%93Rebka_experiment

 

The color differences in the diagram are exaggerated for clarity.

 

It is assumed (among other things) that the index of refraction of the glass can be neglected.

 

To make the emission as narrow as possible, the cylindrical annulus containing the ring of phosphorescent material would be cooled while the phosphor was being "charged" and during the experiment.

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Uploaded on March 30, 2015