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Essay About Gravitational Measurements at Small Distances

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Although gravity has been well tested on several length scales, some unified theories predict that gravity might change somewhere below distances of \(1\,\mathrm{mm}\).

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Schmidt, H. (2018). Essay About Gravitational Measurements at Small Distances. In: Hossenfelder, S. (eds) Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity. FIAS Interdisciplinary Science Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64537-7_9

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