Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Equivalence principle passes another test


A team of researchers from the French Aerospace Lab and at the Côte d'Azur Observatory working on France's MICROSCOPE satellite project has further confirmed the equivalence principle by recreating Galileo's free-falling objects experiment in a satellite.Galileo's free-falling objects experiment passes space test further proving equivalence principle


Read more at: PhysOrg

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