Abstract
In his communication1 on the relativistic behaviour of moving terrestrial clocks Hafele deduces that an airborne clock, after circumnavigating the Earth, could be either fast or slow when compared with a clock which remained stationary on the Earth's surface, depending on the direction of travel; and that in neither the east-bound nor the west-bound case would the generally accepted result be obtained—namely, that the “moving” clock would run slow by the factor (1−v2/c2)1/2. Hafele's apparently anomalous and non-relativistic conclusions have been criticized by Schlegel2, who objects to the background system of coordinates which Hafele employs to evaluate the clock rates and which, according to Schlegel, leads to erroneous results.
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