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Published online 21 February 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060220-7
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Testing times for Einstein's theory
Physicists are searching for violations to the theory of relativity.
Research on 'relativity violations' is reaching fever pitch, with the number of manuscripts on the subject up ten-fold from a decade ago, physicists heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting, held in St Louis, Missouri, on 20 February.
Equipment used to measure certain properties of particles is now near or at the sensitivities needed to find the tiny effects that would hint at a physics beyond Einstein's relativity, they say.
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