Il test più preciso del principio di equivalenza - MEDIA INAF
È uno dei capisaldi della fisica: tutti i corpi in un campo gravitazionale, se nessun'altra forza agisce su di essi, cadono allo stesso modo, ...
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Testare questo principio sulla terra, però, ha una serie di limitazioni legate all’attività sismica e altre perturbazioni, ed è solo possibile fino a una parte su 1013 (ovvero una parte su dieci milioni di milioni). Così, nel 2016, il <anchor>Centre national d’études spatiales</anchor> (Cnes) francese ha lanciato, nel 2016, il satellite Microscope, per misurare, con precisione elevatissima, l’accelerazione di due corpi diversi in caduta libera nello spazio.
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