Word: dror
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the sun rises, Physicists Dror Sadeh and Benjamin Au report in Nature, the ticking of their test atomic clock mysteriously slows down and then speeds up. Sadeh and Au observed this disconcerting phenomenon after discovering another strange effect: the farther they carried an atomic clock from their laboratory, the slower it seemed to run in relation to a similar clock that was left behind. Pondering the strange "distance effect," they decided to compare the performance of two atomic clocks at separate, fixed locations over an extended period of time. They stationed one clock at Cape Fear, N.C.; their other...