Testing the weak equivalence principle with macroscopic proof masses on ground and in space: A brief review
@inproceedings{Nobili2014TestingTW, title={Testing the weak equivalence principle with macroscopic proof masses on ground and in space: A brief review}, author={Anna Maria Nobili}, year={2014} }
General relativity is founded on the experimental fact that in a gravitational field all bodies fall with the same acceleration regardless of their mass and composition. This is the weak equivalence principle, or universality of free fall. Experimental evidence of a violation would require either that general relativity is to be amended or that another force of nature is at play. In 1916 Einstein brought as evidence the torsion balance experiments by Eotvos, to 10-8–10-9. In the 1960s and early…
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