[time-nuts] Q/noise of Earth as an oscillator
Jim Harman
j99harman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 18:20:02 UTC 2016
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Chris Caudle <chris at chriscaudle.org>
wrote:
> Who has a globe on magnetic bearings in a vacuum chamber and will run the
> experiment for us?
>
The superconducting gyroscopes in the Gravity Probe B satellite did an
extraordinary job of eliminating frictional and other losses in a spinning
object, with a spin-down time constant of 15,000 years.
https://einstein.stanford.edu/TECH/technology1.html
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--Jim Harman
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