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fgt - firstly the amounts we are talking about are so insignificant that in reality who cares? secondly, at present we just cannot do the numerical calculation - newtons constant is accurate to about 1 part in 10000, whereas you are introducing a change that will manifest at around 1 part in a million million. and lastly, why would this be a problem - it is not as if the change (if there actually is one) in force occurs without effort being made to change the system. why don't you, for the moment assume G is well known to huge accuracy and actually do the sums
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imatfaalPoint taken I was wrong and fgt55 was correct.The question still has not been answered though. I suspect that my answer should have been correct but relativistic effects have not been accounted for. Does this make sense?If not what does account for the difference?
Quote from: Æthelwulf on 05/04/2012 16:14:46Why has my post been censored, and why when I click it I cannot see it? Cos it was completely off the point. We are having a problem with shrunk posts not unshrinking with the new forum software
Quote from: imatfaal on 05/04/2012 17:09:19Quote from: Æthelwulf on 05/04/2012 16:14:46Why has my post been censored, and why when I click it I cannot see it? Cos it was completely off the point. We are having a problem with shrunk posts not unshrinking with the new forum softwareI am sorry, but I think censoring posts is more of a time-waste unless there is a serious problem, afterall, how much bandwidth has it caused now?
Quote from: MikeS on 05/04/2012 15:20:28imatfaalPoint taken I was wrong and fgt55 was correct.The question still has not been answered though. I suspect that my answer should have been correct but relativistic effects have not been accounted for. Does this make sense?If not what does account for the difference?It is not really something I had thought a great deal about. Relativistic effects? - possibly but which? if you got an idea I will number-crunch it. Perhaps ask why it is assumed they should be the same, are there any consequences for them not being the same, are there positives for them not being the same.This sort of the problem exemplifies why I always harp on about going back to the math
It seems to me that if the gain in weight were real it could be used as the basis for a perpetual motion machine.