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!