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Current measurements of the gravitational «Constant» as a function of the mass separation

Надавние измерения гравнтационной «постоянной», как функции расстояния между массами

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Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)

Summary

A number of works has now been completed in an effort to check on my earlier work showing a variation of the gravitational constant with mass separation. The precise null experiment of Speroet al. turns out to be ambiguous because vacuum polarization processes probably cannot be observed in a null experiment. To date all of the experiments which measureG(R) directly as a function ofR have had large errors, but almost all of those data tend to support my result.

Riassunto

Sono stati ora completati aleuni lavori nell’intento di verificare il mio lavoro precedente che mostrava una variazione della costante gravitazionale con la separazione di massa. Il preciso esperimento nullo di Speroet al. risulta ambiguo perchè i processi di polarizazzione del vuoto probabilmente non si possono osservare in un esperimento nullo. Finora tutti gli esperimenti che misuranoG(R) direttamente in funzione diR sono stati affetti da grandi errori, ma quasi tutti i dati convalidano il mio risultato.

Резюме

Был выполнен ряд работ, в которых была предпринята попытка проверитя мою предыдущую работу, касающуюся изменения гравитационной постоянной с расстоянием между массами. Оказывается, что прецизионный нулевой экспериемнт Сперо и др. является неоднозначным, так как процессы поляризации вакуума, вероятно, не могут быть наблюдены в нулевом эксперименте. До сих пор все эксперименты, в которых непосредственно измеряетсяG(R), как функцияR, имеют большие ошибки, но почти все данные экспериментов подтверждаются мой результат.

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Long, D.R. Current measurements of the gravitational «Constant» as a function of the mass separation. Nuov Cim B 62, 130–138 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02721255

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