Our Knowledge of G Gets Worse, Then Better
JUL 01, 2000
DOI: 10.1063/1.1292470
The precision with which we know a fundamental constant usually gets better with the passing years. Just the opposite, however, was happening recently to G, Newton’s gravitational constant. In 1987, CODATA, the international arbiter of metrology, was quoting an uncertainty of
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