Re: OT: The end of the world in roughly 3 hours

AEF schrieb:

There were also costs in verifying the theory. Accelerators and flying
atomic clocks around the world and what not don't compare to the LHC
in cost, but they aren't free, either.

The two decisive experiments for special and general relativity
were the Michaelson/Morley experiment and the test for the deflection
of light during the total eclipse of the sun 1919.
Rather cheap I presume.

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