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It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field. Accordingfield; according to this reference it is equivalent. The time dilation would be most noticeable if the sample was rotated at 'relativistic speeds'. If the speed is not so fast we would need more accurate time measurement.

It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field. According to this reference it is. The time dilation would be most noticeable if the sample was rotated at 'relativistic speeds'. If the speed is not so fast we would need more accurate time measurement.

It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field; according to this reference it is equivalent. The time dilation would be most noticeable if the sample was rotated at 'relativistic speeds'. If the speed is not so fast we would need more accurate time measurement.

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It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field. According to this reference it is. The time dilation would be most noticeable if the sample was rotated at 'relativistic speeds'. If the speed is not so fast we would need more accurate time measurement.

It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field.

It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field. According to this reference it is. The time dilation would be most noticeable if the sample was rotated at 'relativistic speeds'. If the speed is not so fast we would need more accurate time measurement.

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It is a nice very idea for an experiment, but I don't think that radioactive decay would be an accurate enough 'clock' to use because generally with these types of measurements very small differences in time are detected - generally atomic clocks are used to measure the time in these experiments. With the radioactive decay process it is random decay and there will always be some uncetainty in the activity of the sample after the experiment.

I also wonder whether the centrifuge is equivalent to a gravitational field.