- A new study describes the most sensitive atom-drop test so far and shows that Galileo’s gravity experiment still holds up — even for individual atoms. Two different types of atoms had the same acceleration within about a part per trillion, or 0.0000000001 percent. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/galileo-gravity-experiment-atoms-general-relativity-einstein 3 comments science
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- In a first, Galileo’s gravity experiment is re-created in space https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-galileo-gravity-experiment-re-created-space-einstein 218 comments
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