Time Dilation - Experimental Confirmation

Experimental Confirmation

See also: Tests of special relativity

Time dilation has been tested a number of times. The routine work carried on in particle accelerators since the 1950s, such as those at CERN, is a continuously running test of the time dilation of special relativity. The specific experiments include:

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