Detecting Seasonal Changes in the Fundamental Constants

2007/02/15 by Douglas J. Shaw, Shaw, Douglas J. · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0702090

4 pages, 1 figure

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Abstract

We show that if one or more of the `constants' of Nature can vary then their values, as measured in the laboratory, should oscillate over the year in a very particular way. These seasonal changes in the constants could well be detected, in the near future, with ground-based atomic clocks.

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• Varying constants, Gravitation and Cosmology

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