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well, MAYBE. Let's consider the Cavendish experiment, modified to be
executed in the vertical plane instead of horizontally.
As the external mass is moved from beneath ONE of the suspended
masses to be under the other, won't the 'pointer' move, even tho the
'mass' on each pan hasn't changed?
At 6:38 PM -0400 on 9/27/01, John S. Denker wrote
At 04:58 PM 9/27/01 -0500, brian whatcott conjectured:--
... that though beam balances measure mass:
the pointer reading is still g dependent, like a spring scale.
Does anybody have any experimental and/or theoretical support for this
conjecture?
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