[time-nuts] History Channel "In Search of" Time Travel

[Dr. Geophysics]

Bravo!  How wonderful to read this.  Thank you.
You are truly living the dream imo.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 17:09 Tom Van Baak <tvb at leapsecond.com> wrote:

> Check out History Channel tonight (Friday, August 17) for a new series
> called "In Search Of" hosted by Zachary Quinto. Episode 5 is titled "Time
> Travel".
>
> There's a chance this episode will include some bits with my car & cesium
> clocks. Earlier this year I was invited by the producers to perform a
> gravitational time dilation experiment like the ones I did in 2016 for a
> Stephen Hawking TV show and the family clock trip up Mt Rainier in 2005.
>
> This time I selected Mt Palomar, CA which is conveniently located in the
> greater LA area. You likely know of Palomar because of the famous 200 inch
> Hale telescope up at the ~5500 foot summit. Our base was a beachfront hotel
> in Seaside, CA. The elevation difference was about 1.6 km and the clocks
> were separated for about 24 hr so 15 ns of time dilation is expected.
>
> Over two days they certainly took lots of footage of the clocks, the car,
> and some conversations with me. I have no idea how many seconds of actual
> screen time that might result in. None of it was scripted or rehearsed so I
> hope I didn't do or say anything too stupid on camera. I'll have more info
> by tomorrow and update the web page:
>
> http://leapsecond.com/great2018a/
>
> /tvb
>
>
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