when will we get some good data for the gravitational constant G ? CODATA's G= 6.67259 10^-11 m^3kg^-1 s^-2 is not exactly blowing my socks off. see http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-0233/10/6/001 and especially Fig 1. Wouter. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kleber [mailto:kleber@brandeis.edu] Sent: vrijdag 10 oktober 2003 15:37 To: math-fun Subject: Re: [math-fun] The spatial universe is finite !!!???
I've heard a cosmologist say, approximately, that anyone who thought anything about the universe, and hasn't updated that thinking in light of the WMAP data, should now be considered a historical relic. Confidence intervals for cosmological constants have changed from "within an order of magniture" to "+- 2%" in the past year. O brave new world...
--Michael Kleber kleber@brandeis.edu
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