Science a GoGo's Home Page Forums General Discussion Physics Forum G = 6.674252(109)(54) 10^{-11} m^{3} kg^{-1} s^{-2}

Count, Not wishing to be picky, but sometimes a tad of context can do wonders...

That value is too high unless you have a late reference.

6.674215
Science 288(5468) 944 (2000)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 85(14) 2869 (2000)

is that suppose to mean something

or is it just rambling.

Hi Count:

I wish I had the stuff to work your formula.

Based on something Pasti said in an old reply I susspect you are heavy professionaly into such matters.

I will offer you a problem from my own endeavors.
A divisor of 10, when used on the mechanics of the Solar System can give uunusual results. One example is that the Earths orbital velocity is 18.505 miles per second, squared, equals 342.435.
342,435 / 3.1416 = 109. 109 / 31.416 = 3.47.

3.47 are the seconds per mile of the Earths equatorial speed of rotation, or 1/3.47 = .2882 MPS. I have found this mysterious 109 many times in my research of the Solar System but know not yet, What?

jjw, just in fun.

Fowwow up.

"G = 6.674252(109)(54) 10^{-11} m^{3} kg^{-1} s^{-2}"

I just noticed the 109 in you formula.
Newtons original constant was usually recited as .0000000667. I have worked that number many ways and many times. I hope to take his discoveries back to base one - as to how.
Just a dream.
jjw

I'm going off at a complete tangengent here, but I saw a television prgram which claimed that Newton's original Energy fomula did not square velocity, (E=MV/2) but that it was modified 200yrs later by a female physicist from France. The reason given was that people were not so familiar with squaring in Newton's day, but Newton Came up with the inverse square law for distance, in gravitational fields.

I know it's science history, not science, but I just wondered.

Hi Andist:

In his day Newton was on top of the heap but do not fail to credit all the clever ones that laid the groundwork.

The inverse square rule was a by product of the work of J. Kepler, a science devotee whose work was a mandatory first step, without which, I question that Newton would have found his answers. Kepler's story makes a good read.

One step at a time always works.
jjw