Angular momentum effects in weak gravitational fields

Abstract

It is shown that, contrary to what is normally expected, it is possible to have angular momentum effects on the geometry of space time at the laboratory scale, much bigger than the purely Newtonian effects. This is due to the fact that the ratio between the angular momentum of a body and its mass, expressed as a length, is easily greater than the mass itself, again expressed as a length.

LATEX, 8 pages

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• General relativistic corrections to the Sagnac effect
• Detection of the gravitomagnetic clock effect

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