Em 17/2/2011 00:35, RussellMc escreveu:
>> I want to know the value of the "Big G", the Universal Gravitational con=
stant,
> Ignoring for the purposes of the exercise that there is a significant
> body of opinion that it may not be one :-).
>
> Nor may (almost?) any other "constant" that we think we know. The Fine
> Structure constant may vary with time (and time would vary with the
> fine structure constant :-) ) and the universe MAY be anisotropic wrt
> the FSC. ie "Look out" in one direction and you may see results which
> vary slightly from those in another direction. All very annoying.
> Results to date look very very very like systemic error if you can't
> believe they can be true, but systemic error had been sought with
> thimbles and care (not to  mention forks and hope) but to then, to no
> avail. Things may have changed since then (within last year).
>
> A good thing about G being known with such imprecision is that the
> underlying "reality" can wander around a bit before we notice too much
> :-).
>
>
>
>        Russell


You are scaring me!

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