English Explanatory Dictionary

Hughes-Drever experiment

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of various spectroscopic tests of the isotropy of mass and space, originally to test Mach's principle and now understood to be important tests of Lorentz invariance.

Word forms

Hughes-Drever experiment Hughes-Drever experiments

Etymology

Named after Vernon W. Hughes and Ronald Drever, who independently conducted experiments of this kind in the early 1960s.

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