Sentences with phrase «first gravity measurements»

In fact, when the first gravity measurements were made in India, people were struck by the fact that Mount Everest did not seem to produce much of an effect.

Not exact matches

The first accurate measurement of G was not made, in fact, until 1797, more than a century after the discovery of the law of gravity, and it arose from a classic experiment performed by the English nobleman Henry Cavendish.

Taking advantage of a rare cosmic alignment, scientists have made the first measurement of the speed at which the force of gravity propagates, giving a numerical value to one of the last unmeasured fundamental constants of physics.