[LEAPSECS] remind NIST of Project GREAT

[Rob Seaman]

On Sep 25, 2010, at 12:14 PM, Steve Allen wrote:


> The new chronometer at NIST is cool, but the physics is something that our e-mail list host and his kids demonstrated 5 years ago (not to mention Adams, Pound, Rebka, ...)

> 

> http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-relativity-20100925,0,7205568.story


Very cool.  Remarkable how the media still haven't figured out the nature of hypertext.  The paper in question is:

	http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/329/5999/1630

No preprint that I've found.  Didn't see anything on slashdot (but haven't looked very hard).  Apparently also missed this on "Science Friday":

	http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/201009241

To the extent that the Times piece is about engaging the imaginations of the public ("This [makes] science resonate with regular people"), as Steve says, an experiment that kids can do for their science fair has a larger "cross-section".  Having to make a trip with your dad into the mountains for the purpose is a feature, not a bug :-)

Rob