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Line 34: − − He invented the lock-in amplifier and verified the existence of left-over radiation from the Big Bang but was never awarded the Nobel Prize for either remarkable work, which many felt he deserved.
→Political Support for Relativity: removed opinion (commandment 5)
::But the J.P.L. experimenters reduced the margin of error to 4% or less by locating the distant spacecraft within 100 ft. of their actual position. Thus, when they calculated that the signal to Mariner was slowed down by 204 millionths of a second on its round trip, they dealt the Brans-Dicke theory a sharp if not decisive blow. Their measurement was only 4 millionths of a second off the Einsteinian prediction, but 18 millionths of a second off the Brans-Dicke figure.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943324,00.html</ref>
::But the J.P.L. experimenters reduced the margin of error to 4% or less by locating the distant spacecraft within 100 ft. of their actual position. Thus, when they calculated that the signal to Mariner was slowed down by 204 millionths of a second on its round trip, they dealt the Brans-Dicke theory a sharp if not decisive blow. Their measurement was only 4 millionths of a second off the Einsteinian prediction, but 18 millionths of a second off the Brans-Dicke figure.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943324,00.html</ref>
== References ==
== References ==