{"id":82219,"date":"2018-08-30T22:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/physicists-just-made-the-most-precise-measurement-ever-of-gravitys-strength"},"modified":"2018-08-30T22:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T05:42:40","slug":"physicists-just-made-the-most-precise-measurement-ever-of-gravitys-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/physicists-just-made-the-most-precise-measurement-ever-of-gravitys-strength","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Made the Most Precise Measurement Ever of Gravity\u2019s Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-made-the-most-precise-measurement-ever-of-gravitys-strength.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gravity might feel strong if you drop a bowling ball on your feet, but is in fact the weakest force. Compare it to electromagnetism: the pull of all the Earth\u2019s gravity can\u2019t stop you from picking up a paperclip with a refrigerator magnet. That weakness makes gravity incredibly difficult to measure.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists in China are reporting that they have now performed the most precise measurement of gravity\u2019s strength yet by measuring <em>G<\/em>, the<em> <\/em>Newtonian or universal gravitational constant. <em>G <\/em>relates the gravitational attraction between two objects to their masses and the distance between them. The new measurement is important both for high-powered atomic clocks as well as the study of the universe, earth science, or any kind of science that relies on gravity in some way.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/physicists-just-made-the-most-precise-measurement-ever-1828720455\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/physicists-just-made-the-most-precise-me...1828720455<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gravity might feel strong if you drop a bowling ball on your feet, but is in fact the weakest force. Compare it to electromagnetism: the pull of all the Earth\u2019s gravity can\u2019t stop you from picking up a paperclip with a refrigerator magnet. That weakness makes gravity incredibly difficult to measure. A team of scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}