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On 12/02/2024 01:54 PM, ProkaryoticCaspaseHomolog wrote:

> Personally, I hope that the next space-borne equivalence principle
> test, whatever technology it uses (STEP never got the funding that
> it deserved), finds that the equivalence principle breaks down at
> some level of accuracy. As I have written elsewhere:
>
> | "Currently envisioned tests of the weak equivalence principle are
> | approaching a degree of sensitivity such that non-discovery of a
> | violation would be just as profound a result as discovery of a
> | violation. Non-discovery of equivalence principle violation in this
> | range would suggest that gravity is so fundamentally different from
> | other forces as to require a major reevaluation of current attempts
> | to unify gravity with the other forces of nature. A positive
> | detection, on the other hand, would provide a major guidepost
> | towards unification."

Oh, which way is it going to be?