Historical perspective on testing the Equivalence Principle

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Oct 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003adspr..32.1297e&link_type=abstract

Advances in Space Research, Volume 32, Issue 7, p. 1297-1300.

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Few facts in science are more surprising and none has had a longer history than the apparent equivalence of the two kinds of mass in physics, gravitational and inertial. From Galileo and Newton to Eötvös and Einstein, it has been a compelling issue both theoretically and experimentally. Ground-based tests have now a precision of about 1 part in 1012. Even with this extraordinary agreement, there are profound theoretical reasons for carrying the measurements further. Our generation has the unique oppurtunity to make an advance of a factor of a million in testing the Equivalence Principle in space.

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