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Quantum mechanics and the gravitational red shift

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

H. F. Stoeckli
Affiliation:
Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford†
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Abstract

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It is shown that the formula for the gravitational red shift predicted by the theory of general relativity can also be derived by classical quantum mechanics combined with relativistic arguments. The agreement between the two derivations is a consequence of the separability of the time-dependent wave function, and of the first-order time differential in the wave equation.

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1971

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