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by Eric Hanson on January 27, 2007

According to The University of Evansville Crescent, Cowsik has built a 600 pound, $100,000 gadget that measures gravity using a torsion balance - the same technique used by Henry Cavendish when he first measured gravitational force in 1798. Cowsik's device is much, much more sensitive than the original, allowing scientists to measure the gravitational pull of something as small as 1/60,000,000,000th of a grain of salt. Although he's taking his time in setting up the experiments, Cowsik hopes to determine whether there's a breakdown in the theory of gravity as the objects get smaller and smaller and, in so doing, perhaps discover a new subatomic particle or a few of the extra dimensions that proponents of string theory theorize are true.
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