IV. The Shapiro effect of delay of phase of E.M. radiations near the sun.--[ Return home ]

Physical Review Letters, Volume 20, Number 22, (1968), pp.1265-1269

With the light speed: , and as without the sun we have: and: with the sun, the delay is:

For y = 696,000 km , X1= 69.E(+9)m for Mercury and X2= 149.E(+9) m for the Earth, the phase delay is 112us, that is to say 224 us for a round trip.

This result is in agreement with the experiment of Shapiro where the maximum delay seems to be in the order of 170 us.

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