The University of Arizona: The Vexing Quest to Pin Down the Gravitational Constant
OSC Colloquium presented by Stephan Schlamminger The gravitational constant, G, governs the strength of gravity, the weakest yet most familiar force we experience in our everyday lives. Despite more than a quarter of a millennium of scientific inquiry and experimentation, our understanding of G remains frustratingly elusive. Recent measurements still differ by about 0.05%, showing...
