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How do we measure the gravitational constant?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Struggle to Measure Gravity

We don't know how to bring gravity into quantum physics. So we have no way to predict or like constrain the value of this force. It's like a chicken and egg problem, it comes down to what do you know first? If you know the masses of two objects, you can measure the force between them and then you get big G.

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