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Article: EXPERTS HOPING TO PIN DOWN GRAVITY NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IT IS, BUT SCIENTISTS AT UW SEEK ANSWERS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 24, 2003
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Byline: TOM PAULSON P-I reporter
Scientists at the University of Washington are doing the most precise gravity measurements in the world - putting an innovative twist on an old experimental technique, and looking for evidence that reality has far more than three or four dimensions.
Considering nobody truly knows what gravity is, or why it refuses to act like any other fundamental force in nature, this is no small feat.
"Gravity is special," said Eric Adelberger, lead scientist at the UW's nuclear physics lab and one of the nation's top experimentalists in gravitational physics.
Gravity is certainly "special" in the sense that it's ...