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While that's all certainly true, NASA physicists are not all crackpots, and at least some of them are careful experimenters. Newtonian mechanics was also extre
by quesera 11y ago
While that's all certainly true, NASA physicists are not all crackpots, and at least some of them are careful experimenters.
Newtonian mechanics was also extremely well-tested. Unexplained error is always interesting and sometimes exciting.
- eru 11y agoNewtonian mechanics still holds for `normal' levels of energy. Relativity and Quantum mechanics only show up on the edges. dzdt says that this device does NOT probe the edges---no high energies for example.
- TearsInTheRain 11y agoThe photoelectric effect which led to the discovery of Quantum mechanics is not at all high energy physics and could barely be called an edge case...
- rbanffy 11y ago> dzdt says that this device does NOT probe the edges A Cesium clock on board a 747 will slow down even though the 747 will not be flying at relativistic speeds. It's just that it's a clock good enough to show a very small difference. They are measuring a very small, barely detectable, force.
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