Authors: Richard Benish
Galileo’s classic thought experiment, in which he envisions a cannonball falling through the Earth, has been doable as a scaled-down real experiment for decades. This fact was the subject of an essay submitted to this Foundation five years ago. [1, 2] The apparatus needed for the experiment—a very simple thing, in principle—may be called a Small Low-Energy Non-Collider. Sadly, the experiment remains undone. Presently, I will more emphatically argue that the standard prediction for the experiment could be wrong. The reasons for not filling this gap in our empirical knowledge of gravity have little to do with physics and a lot to do with sociology. The most operative influence is our primitive concept of an unmoving Earth, whose modern incarnation is embodied by Einstein’s relativistic principles. Inspiration to question prevailing dogma is found in the perspective of an imaginary alien civilization.
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