Comment on 'Correct interpretation of two experiments on the transverse Doppler shift'

Abstract

We disclose a number of errors in the paper by Zanchini (2012 Phys. Scr. 86 015004) in his attempt to re-interpret the Mossbauer experiments in rotating systems and to put in doubt the reality of the time dilation effect in special relativity. We show that the common interpretation of this kind of experiment is quite correct and once more pay attention to the presence of an additional (to the relativistic dilation of time) component to the relative energy shift between emission and absorption lines detected in our recent experiment on this subject.