Talk:Walter Sydney Adams

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Gravitional redshift validity
This page says Adams observed gravitational redshift in 1925. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_experimental_errors_and_frauds_in_physics it says Adams' 1924 result was considered to be in error. Which page is correct? I'm not familiar with this subject. 76.152.182.21 (talk) 06:52, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

I added the sentence about Adams, based on a book written in the 1960s. It seems that for some decades he was well known for that "discovery" and I was surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article. I didn't realize that the observations were later found to be incorrect. I'm going to change the sentence to say he "reported" the redshift, and that this was regarded at the time as significant confirmation of Einstein's theories, and that the observations were later found to be incorrect. PatConolly (talk) 08:02, 2 December 2022 (UTC)