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Yes and no. It's a lot in the sense that we are way off from what we believed or knowledge to be. But on absolute scale, it's not a lot. The current determinati
by davrosthedalek 5y ago
Yes and no. It's a lot in the sense that we are way off from what we believed or knowledge to be. But on absolute scale, it's not a lot. The current determination of the Rydberg constant puts it at 10973731.568160 1/m with an uncertainty of 0.000021 1/m. So a relative precision of ~2*10^-12 (or maybe only 10^-11).
The standard acceleration of gravity is, btw, defined, so no uncertainty. The gravitational constant G is known only to 10^-5 or so.
- prox 5y agoIs the gravitational constant something that tells us a lot about quantum mechanics? Since it derives from mass? What I mean is, just like the sun radiates in the EM spectrum and tells us a lot about the properties of those fields, does gravity do something similar?