Hughes-Drever experiment
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Etymology
[edit]Named after Vernon W. Hughes and Ronald Drever, who independently conducted experiments of this kind in the early 1960s.
Noun
[edit]Hughes-Drever experiment (plural Hughes-Drever experiments)
- (physics) 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.