An Ignoble Experiment: A new experiment deepens the mystery over gravitational constant, Big G

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A new experiment deepens the mystery over gravitational constant, Big G

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Scientists Stephan Schlamminger (left) and Vincent Lee examine the torsion balance they used to measure the gravitational constant, Big G.

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