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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 52 1 b Solution by
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Yes, at the weak-field accuracy of the experiment. The Pound-Rebka experiment measures gravitational redshift, which Nordstrom theory of gravitation predicts even though it does not predict bending of light.
In a static field, a stationary clock has . A photon has constant Killing energy , and an observer at rest has . Its measured frequency is proportional to . Emission at and reception at therefore giveAn upward ray has when ordinary units are restored, so . This is the shift tested using the Mössbauer effect. The gravitational redshift follows from the physical clock rates; a claim that straight light paths imply no frequency shift would confuse two different observables.
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