Of course, I understand that you tried to get -gh/c^2. Excerpt from document at http://www.savefile.com/files/2045250 referred by Dono: BEGIN 2. Imagine that we could transport the Harvard tower to a location very far from any gravitational field. At the time an electromagnetic pulse is emitted from the top of the tower, the tower floor is accelerated away from the direction of the light front with the acceleration g in order to generate the equivalent redshift. The light front encounters the tower floor after the time t given by the equations: The relativistic Doppler effect is fo/fe = sqrt(1-V/c)/sqrt(1+V/c)), where V/c ~ gh/c^2 END When V/c is very small, the denominator sqrt(1+V/c) can be neglected, then one is left with fo/fe = sqrt(1-V/c) or, approximately, fo/fe ~ 1-V/2c ~ 1-gh/2c^2 The corresponding shift is thus -gh/2c^2, which is different from -gh/c^2. Btw, you see that one doesn't need 2 pulses. Marcel Luttgens |
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