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| ZP OWER C ORPORATION PAGE OF 352 Z ERO P OINT E NERGY In the experiment, the lithium sample, in the form of a solution of lithium nitrate, was contained in a plastic bottle surrounded by a coil placed with its axis perpendicular to the direction of the earth's field. A direct current through the loop produced afield of about 200 gauss. When this field was switched off rapidly, the resultant nuclear magnetic moment precessed about the earth's field and an alternating emf. signal was generated in the coil. With no anisotropy to cause shifts in the energy levels, there would be a single resonant frequency present and the signal would decay exponentially with a time constant equal to the transverse relaxation time of the spin system. If, however, an anisotropy in inertial mass exists, the resonance response would be split into a close triplet, and the signal would exhibit beats, corresponding to interference between the oscillations at the three resonance frequencies. Very long beat periods would show up as changes in the decay curve shape and l/e time as the experimental parameters that changed the anisotropy were varied. In Drever's null experiment, the rotation of the earth changed the direction with respect to the Galactic center once a sidereal day No variation was found. This corresponds to [Drever (1961)1: "an upper limit for the ratio of the anisotropic part of the inertial mass of a proton to the isotropic part of the order of x 10-23.. It should be noted at this point that the lithium nuclei being measured were in a non-symmetric chemical compound, were surrounded by non-symmetric polar water molecules, and a large fraction of them were up against container walls, yet these nonsymmetric surroundings did not induce shifts in the magnetic energy levels that would mimic a differential shift in the energy levels caused by an anisotropic inertial mass of the nucleus. The fundamental beauty of the Drever experiment is that the nucleus is "self-referencing" in that the ml and 1/2 nuclear magnetic states produce identical transition frequencies despite large and non-symmetric changes in the surrounding environment that can produce large changes in the absolute energies of the magnetic states. but do not produce differential shifts between the 3/2 and 1/2 states, This probably occurs largely because the nucleus is small in size compared to the distances to neighboring perturbing atoms. IliS only when the nucleus itself changes, by developina an anisotropv in inertial mass, that the transition frequencies change with respect to each other and produce the beat notes. The beat notes are the signal that something has happened. Download 0.97 Mb. Share with your friends:
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