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- From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Coverup - gravity doesn't exist?
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 18:21:40 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov's message of Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:23:04 GMT
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- John Roberts writes:
-
- Peter J. Scott writes:
-
- -Ah, but have you personally verified Newton's Law of Gravitation? After
- -all, who do you think started this whole conspiracy? Can any of us say
- -that we really knew Isaac Newton?
-
- *I* haven't, but my roommate in college did. He was a pretty honest fellow,
- so I expect he was telling the truth about the results.
-
- I've done an inverse-square experiment (not very well), and a big-G
- experiment. But gravity is genuinely very difficult to test
- accurately. That's why there are still a fair number of people
- experimenting with it (and every so often one of them comes up with
- evidence for gravitational mass depending on, say, baryon number (I
- kid you not)).
-
- There's an apple tree on the NIST grounds that's a direct
- descendant of the tree Isaac Newton was sitting under when he
- thought up the laws of gravitation.
-
- Cobblers. No such tree. I have, however, bathed in the fountain that
- Byron's bear used to play in :-)
-
- Nick Haines nickh@cmu.edu
-