Once again, I am a bit late in commenting this post. Sorry about that, but week-end moments are precious family moments that bring me quite offline. Anyway, here I am.
I will start to ask you a question. Do you believe in coincidences? I may start to… More seriously (don’t worry, coincidences are just coincidences in my opinion), I started to smile a lot when I red the following:
The Pound–Rebka experiment was one of the first experiments to test and confirm experimentally the existence of Gravitational time dilation in 1959, followed by others with refinements and increased precisions.
I am in charge this year of a special course where students in their first year of bachelor studies in physics can approach state-of-the-art research in various sub-fields of physics. On top of attending (dedicated) scientific conferences on various topics, they have a bibliographical project to handle and that should include some calculations that they have to (re-)do.
One of the topics that were proposed this year is precisely about the Pound-Rebka experiment (that is understandable enough for a first-year student)! The defence is scheduled in 9 days. I will let you now how it will be if you are interested ^^
Cheers!
Don't worry about it, family is always first! I hope everyone in your family is doing fine and recovering well.
As weird and "unscientific" this may sound, but I do think there's something that makes people behave like a wave. 😆 Everyone somehow tends to start bringing up similar subjects and do similar things even though each one of them is completely disconnected from the others.
I think it might be something with the subconscious, subtle stuff we see or hear sparks ideas and we end up talking about them in a similar way.
Crazy talk aside, yes, I am interested. Let me know how it will be. 😁
My wife has fully recovered, and my son is still a little bit positive (the self-test returned a fainted marker today). We are finally getting out of it, and I managed to stay dark and undetected (beware of the physicist's joke). At least for now... ;)
I will definitely let you know (don't hesitate to ping me if needed)! :)