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How do we measure the gravitational constant?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Importance of Confidence in Measurements

In the history of these measurements, typically what happens is you have a first measurement, which is sloppy and rough. So if you look at these things over time, they tend to converge towards one value. In reality, it doesn't always work like that. We have some cases in history where the value seems to converge to one number, and then it shifts.

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