Hughes-Drever experiment

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Hughes-Drever experiment (plural Hughes-Drever experiments)

1. (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.