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The Newtonian constant of gravitation, $G$, stands out in the landscape of the most common fundamental constants owing to its surprisingly large relative uncertainty, which is attributable mostly to the dispersion of the values measured for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-09-04 Christos Merkatas , Blaza Toman , Antonio Possolo , Stephan Schlamminger

About 300 experiments have tried to determine the value of the Newtonian gravitational constant, G, so far, but large discrepancies in the results have made it impossible to know its value precisely. The weakness of the gravitational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 G. Rosi , F. Sorrentino , L. Cacciapuoti , M. Prevedelli , G. M. Tino

A precision measurement of the gravitational constant $G$ has been made using a beam balance. Special attention has been given to determining the calibration, the effect of a possible nonlinearity of the balance and the zero-point variation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 St. Schlamminger , E. Holzschuh , W. Kündig , F. Nolting , R. E. Pixley , J. Schurr , U. Straumann

The Newtonian constant of gravitation $G$ historically has the largest relative uncertainty over all other fundamental constants with some discrepancies in values between different measurements. We propose a new scheme to measure $G$ by…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-03-02 Akio Kawasaki

In 2006, a final result of a measurement of the gravitational constant $G$ performed by researchers at the University of Z\"urich was published. A value of $G=6.674\,252(122)\times 10^{-11}\,\mbox{m}^3\,\mbox{kg}^{-1}\,\mbox{s}^{-2}$ was…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-22 S. Schlamminger , R. E. Pixley , F. Nolting , J. Schurr , U. Straumann

Newton's gravitational constant $G$ has been measured to high accuracy in a number of independent experiments. For currently unresolved reasons, indicated values from different well-designed and thoroughly analyzed experiments differ by…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 R. K. Nesbet

We determined the Newtonian Constant of Gravitation G by interferometrically measuring the change in spacing between two free-hanging pendulum masses caused by the gravitational field from large tungsten source masses. We find a value for G…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Harold V. Parks , James E. Faller

Isolated wide binary stars provide natural laboratories to directly probe gravity for Newtonian acceleration $g_{\rm{N}}\lesssim 10^{-9}$ m s$^{-2}$. Recent statistical analyses of wide binaries have been performed only with sky-projected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-20 Kyu-Hyun Chae

In a recent work, Dai (arXiv:2103.11157) searched for a variability in Newton's constant $G$ using the IGETS based gravitational acceleration measurements. However, this analysis, obtained from $\chi^2$ minimization, did not incorporate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-14 Srinikitha Bhagvati , Shantanu Desai

Many precision measurements of G have produced a spread of results incompatible with measurement errors. Clearly an unknown source of systematic errors is at work. It is proposed here that most of the discrepancies derive from subtle…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Riccardo DeSalvo

The recently suggested SEE (Satellite Energy Exchange) method of measuring the gravitational constant $G$, possible equivalence principle violation (measured by the E\"{o}tv\"{o}s parameter $\eta$) and the hypothetic 5th force parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 A. D. Alexeev , K. A. Bronnikov , N. I. Kolosnitsyn , M. Yu. Konstantinov , V. N. Melnikov , A. G. Radynov

There have been recent claims (Anderson et al., EPL, 110, 10002) of a 5.9 year periodicity in measurements of Newton's gravitational constant, $G$, which show a very strong correlation with observed periodic variations in the length of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-02 M. Pitkin

It is shown that even in the case of a negligibly small change in the gradient of the gravitational field of the mass source in the axial direction, the dependence of this gradient in the radial direction leads to a systematic error in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 B. Dubetsky

Building on the principles of quantum electrodynamics and special relativity, we develop a semi-classical QED theory of gravitation. The experiment model for theoretical analysis is the "hyperfine splitting" of the ground energy state of…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Zhiping Li , Xin Li

We consider the gravitational constant calculation methodologies for a rectangular block of the torsion balance body presented in the papers Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 240801 (2009) and Phys.Rev. D. 82, 022001 (2010). We have established the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-07-13 V. M. Shakhparonov , O. V. Karagioz , V. P. Izmailov

Concerning systematic effects, the recommendation given in the GUM is to correct for them, but unfortunately no detailed information is available, how to do this. This publication will show, how systematic measurement deviations can be…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-02-16 Michael Krystek

Recent work by Chae et al. (2026) reported a gravitational anomaly in 36 wide-binary pairs, finding a gravity boost factor of $\gamma \equiv G_{\rm eff}/G_{\rm N} \approx 1.60_{-0.14}^{+0.17}$ at low accelerations, consistent with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Serat M. Saad , Yuan-Sen Ting

When 3D relative displacement $\mathbf{r}$ and velocity $\mathbf{v}$ between the pair in a gravitationally-bound system are precisely measured, the six measured quantities at one phase can allow elliptical orbit solutions at a given…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-20 Kyu-Hyun Chae

In 1687, Isaac Newton published the universal law of gravitation stating that two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their masses and the inverse square of the distance. The constant of proportionality, G,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail L. Gershteyn , Lev I. Gershteyn , Arkady Gershteyn , Oleg V. Karagioz

We use IGETS absolute gravitational acceleration measurement data to study the gravitational acceleration variance. The relative variance of $\delta g /g$ in 22 years is less than $4\times 10^{-8}$. Since $\delta G /G\lessapprox\delta g /g…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 De-Chang Dai
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