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How big is Big G? Mystery deepens after ten-year effort to measure gravity’s strength

www.nature.com·Gibney, Elizabeth·about 1 month ago
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Stephan Schlamminger (left) and colleague Vincent Lee with the equipment used to measure big G . Credit: R. Eskalis/NIST The value of the constant that describes the gravitational pull between objects, Big G , continues to baffle scientists. A decade-long replication experiment 1 that involved moving equipment across the Atlantic has resulted in a number that disagrees with previous results, and also differs from the current best estimate of G . The new measurement gives important clues as to where the original experiment, conducted by researchers at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in Paris and published in 2013 , went wrong. But its failure to match the internationally agreed CODATA value has left physicists no closer to pinning down G ’s true value. Is gravity quantum?…

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