Re: Moonbeams Shine on Einstein, Galileo and Newton

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 19:35:55 +0000 (UTC)

"mountain man" <hobbit@southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message
news:Hs8Wd.184706$K7.131059@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> "Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote
> > in message news:42290B1F.8030200@mchsi.com...
> > Jane Platt (818) 354-0880
> > Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
> >
> > News Release: 2005-039 March 4,
2005
> >
> > Moonbeams Shine on Einstein, Galileo and Newton
> >
>
> ...[trim]...
>
> > Great strides have been made over the past decade in refining the
> > theories of Einstein, Galileo and Newton. The latest findings are
> > twice as accurate as any previous results on the strong
equivalence
> > principle, and 10 times as accurate as anything previously
published on
> > the variation of Newton's gravitational constant
>
>
> And what is to be said of the fact that in 1998 CODATA
> increased the uncertainty associated with the measurement
> of G from 0.013% to 0.15%?

A welcome attack of realism in the light of an improved analysis?
0.15% is still pretty impressive, wouldn't you agree?

You're in real trouble now, otherwise you would not have made that
fatuous reply. 

-- 
Franz
"A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can
produce outstanding work"
P.M.S. Blackett

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