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*Another prediction of special relativity was time dilation in rapidly moving objects.  This effect was most famously verified in the anomalously slow decay of relativistic cosmic muons.<ref>Some have suggested that other explanations are possible for this effect.  We are trying to track this down.</ref>  Time dilation has since been verified many times, and is routinely taken into account in all high-energy nuclear physics experiments, as in Hadron collision experiments.<ref>Experiments specifically designed to check dilation are rarely conducted any more.</ref>
 
*Another prediction of special relativity was time dilation in rapidly moving objects.  This effect was most famously verified in the anomalously slow decay of relativistic cosmic muons.<ref>Some have suggested that other explanations are possible for this effect.  We are trying to track this down.</ref>  Time dilation has since been verified many times, and is routinely taken into account in all high-energy nuclear physics experiments, as in Hadron collision experiments.<ref>Experiments specifically designed to check dilation are rarely conducted any more.</ref>
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[[Image:Cassini-science-289.jpg|right|thumb|The Shapiro effect: A spacecraft signal dipping into a gravity well around the [[Sun]] is delayed slightly.]]
   
As the 20th century progressed, tests of general relativity were proposed.
 
As the 20th century progressed, tests of general relativity were proposed.
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::: (Source:  [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/9804/9804258v1.pdf Pijpers 2008])
 
::: (Source:  [http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/9804/9804258v1.pdf Pijpers 2008])
 
:These error bars, and that of the general relativity prediction, all overlap.
 
:These error bars, and that of the general relativity prediction, all overlap.
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[[Image:Cassini-science-289.jpg|right|thumb|The Shapiro effect: A spacecraft signal dipping into a gravity well around the [[Sun]] is delayed slightly.]]
    
*Another is the ''Shapiro effect'', involving time delay in radio signals passing through the gravity well of the Sun or a planet.  Various spacecraft have confirmed this.
 
*Another is the ''Shapiro effect'', involving time delay in radio signals passing through the gravity well of the Sun or a planet.  Various spacecraft have confirmed this.
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