World's most sensitive table-top experiment sets new limits on very high-frequency gravitational waves

The world's most sensitive table-top interferometric system—a miniature version of miles-long gravitational-wave detectors ...
Inverse

Physicists Just Measured Gravity on the Smallest Scale Ever By Using a Promising New Technique

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment, researchers at Leiden University in the ...
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Gravity Experiments on the Kitchen Table: Why a Tiny, Tiny Measurement May Be a Big Leap Forward for Physics

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment, researchers at Leiden University in the ...
Inverse

'Anti-gravity' experiment defies physics using one simple trick

There are certain physical phenomena we take for granted, like gravity tugging us to down to the Earth, or the refraction of light coloring the sky blue. INVERSE IS COUNTING DOWN THE 20 STORIES THAT ...
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The Ultimate Water Balloon vs Bridge Experiment

What happens when gravity, pressure, and a giant water balloon collide? We filmed the entire bridge-drop moment, and it’s ...
Futurism

A New Experiment May Finally Reveal the True Nature of Gravity

Quantum physicists have toiled to no avail for decades in their attempts to subsume gravity (the first cosmological force ever discovered) into quantum physics. A group of researchers recently ...
Physics World

‘Cavendish-like’ experiment could reveal gravity’s quantum nature

Cavendish-like: A schematic diagram of the proposed experiment on gravitational interaction between two torsion balances. Two torsion pendula are placed with their equilibrium orientations (dashed ...
Scientific American

Can Space and Time Exist as Two Shapes at Once? Mind-Bending Experiments Aim to Find Out

There is a glaring gap in our knowledge of the physical world: none of our well-established theories describe gravity’s quantum nature. Yet physicists expect that this quantum nature is essential for ...
The Conversation

Gravity experiments on the kitchen table: why a tiny, tiny measurement may be a big leap forward for physics

Sam Baron receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever ...